Vanilla : New media tool that helps clean up your act

First, it was Zoella. Then it was a Gay Times editor. A few days later, Stormzy followed suit.

What do these three individuals have in common? They were all subjected to backlash after offensive tweets were discovered on their timelines, made in the early years of social media.

If you haven’t yet considered how your own digital footprint could have an impact on your future, particularly your employability, then it’s about time you did.

And luckily a new social media tool has arrived to save the day. Named Vanilla, the tool was created by developer Samuel Wood as a way to help people clean up their previous social media posts.

“The idea for Vanilla came about when I saw a young musician who had overcome the odds by breaking through racial and gender glass ceilings, being characterised by a silly tweet he posted years ago while he was still a teen.

It seemed like an attack on an individual whose work to date and personality represented something much more important and positive than that singular tweet.

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