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What Are the Consequences on Twitter Users? ENG 2322 3/17/2021 The Consequences of Bullying on Twitter Users 2 Bullying on Twitter users has continued to be prevalent in recent years. Twitter is one of the principal online platforms reported to have high rates of cyberbullying among its users. Through its developers and management, the platform has put in numerous efforts to suspend all tweets classified to be discriminatory. However, cyberbullying and other biased tweets are still present and continue to be an issue of great concern among social media users due to its prevalence and the adverse effects it causes on Twitter users. Cyberbullying has a lot of negative consequences on Twitter users. Such bullying causes emotional, psychological, and physical distress on Twitter users. Twitter is a free platform; therefore, bullying is rampant because it has no strong guides eliminating underage individuals. The majority of these cyberbullying are directed towards appearance, racism, origin, among other concepts. Underage Twitter users are more affected by the bullying that has become prevalent on the Twitter platform (Resnik et al., 2016). That assertion is because this group of Twitter users lacks adequate strength to endure insults on this platform. Some of these children are affected by depression, anxiety, fear, reduced confidence, and low self-esteem, which is very common among Twitter users. Such cases are a little different when considering the older users that are becoming used to this twitter bullying, unlike the young individuals. Young people who are bullied on Twitter may show some alterations in behavior, mood, and emotions when compelled. They may also experience some mental and health issues as well projects a decline in their academic performance. Twitter has for a long time being very instrumental in different areas and used in enhancing the social network; however, it has also been used in propagating other vices upon other Twitter users (Liu & Sui, 2016). This platform is considered the leading cyberbullying site compared to other social media sites such as Instagram, Facebook, and Linkedin, among other social media sites that rarely imply such misbehaviors. 3 Bullying among Twitter users has a far-reaching effect and sometimes causing longlasting low self-esteem. Most people find themselves in such absurd moments on Twitter from unfamiliar people or those they know very well. However, the victims' effects have the most significant impact on the receiver regardless of the person sending such insults. Common bullying on Twitter entails the use of insults, threats, and taunts that are done online. Those responsible for this vice use different technological gadgets such as tablets, smartphones, computers, or laptops to access the Twitter platform, attacking other Twitter users. The availability of these gadgets and other technological media has propelled cyberbullying since many people are engrossed in these gadgets for different purposes. A simple bullying text can be portrayed to affect a considerable population of Twitter users. Such bullying targets a group of people while the message is conveyed to an individual Twitter user (Küçüksüleymano?lu, 2019). Some may target an individual while quoting a specific stereotype that projects a larger population discrimination message. Such information has the potential to ruin the image and reputation of their victims, which can adversely affect their personal and professional life. It may take a more extended period to get one's reputation back moreso when portrayed in social media that can be reviewed for a long time. Twitter users can also bully their counterparts and go unidentified for a long period since they have the opportunity to have an anonymous profile. Posting derogatory information about a victim without the fear of being caught presents more adverse psychological consequences on the victim being bulled. The bully, therefore, may keep on with their actions due to the assurance they have that they may never be found out. The victim lives in fear, not knowing the people responsible for such bullying tweets, which encourage more bullying in the whole platform. 4 One of the consequences of bullying on Twitter users is that it adversely affects the victim's life to the extent that it can be life-threatening. Due to the distress that results from being bullied online, the victims may turn to drug abuse to cope with the bullies. Such victims also have a high tendency to suffer emotionally and from different physical issues. They also experience mental torture due to the bullying that may last, projecting physical damage caused by depression. For students bullied on Twitter, this highly affects the zeal to work hard in school and their social life, making them isolated from their peers at school. These students may consider suicide or avoid school because of being bullied, which injects the feeling of being incapable of doing whatever they do. Interventions towards Cyberbullying There are consequences aligned by the federal government that directly affect those responsible for bullying. Individuals bullying others on Twitter also suffer the consequences of their actions. The Federal and state lawmakers have formulated policies meant to curb the prevailing bullying rates on Twitter (Resnik et al., 2016). In some states, bullying on Twitter has been made a criminal act, therefore imposing criminal penalties to the perpetrators of bullying on this social media platform. The penalties imposed on individuals bullying others on Twitter include fines and being sentenced to jail. These authorities have set a considerable fine to be paid by the perpetrators or a longer jail term lasting for a year or longer. This is meant to discourage bullying on Twitter and other online platforms. Learning institutions also have assigned responsibility to reduce bullying by the federal government to ease learning. These guidelines prohibit their students from engaging in any form of cyberbullying, including bullying other people on Twitter. Institutions ensure their students 5 and other online platforms face disciplinary actions in their schools (Liu & Sui, 2016). In a school setting, the penalties for bullying on Twitter include suspension from the school and expulsion. Such corrections affect the students' ability to continue with their studies, and therefore they are forced to comply with the stipulated guidelines discouraging bullying. The legal consequences of cyberbullying affect the perpetrators. Bullying on Twitter users may result in a lawsuit filed against the responsible persons for defamation. Defamation of character claims is a serious crime that can result in long-term imprisonment for the person bullying others on Twitter. Depending on the type of bullying act on Twitter, the issue can be addressed differently on civil law or criminal law. There is a huge fine that can be imposed on these individuals or a jail term sentence to stop others from committing such illegal acts. The majority of these perpetrators have been captured and have served as an example to their colleagues that project to improve cyberbullying reports. Under the civic laws, cyberbullying on Twitter perpetrators may serve other consequences resulting from defamation. This happens when the Twitter bully spreads damaging and false information about a person or a particular incident without substantial proof. This misleading information is always harmful to the victim's image and reputation. Such deformation may happen temporarily in speeches that are not recorded or in a live broadcast. Precisely, this kind of defamation is called slander and is punishable under civil law (Küçüksüleymano?lu, 2019). It can also happen permanently with evidence from a written document online on a website or a book. For bullying among Twitter users, defamatory remarks are very critical since they are punishable under federal law. 6 In libel cases, the victim makes a suit against the person who published the information or posted the content on Twitter. When this laid claim is successful, the perpetrators responsible for defaming remarks must pay damages of those remarks to the victim. Bullying on Twitter makes the targets feel unsafe and uncomfortable in their environments. This affects their ability to feel free and engage in their daily activities, resulting in reduced productivity on the part of the target or the offended individual (Liu & Sui, 2016). The responsibility files the perpetrator if anything happens to the target. For instance, a person suggesting that a person should take away their lives for whichever reason will be held responsible if the target by any chance commits suicide. Bullying on Twitter is said to cause harassment to the victim, which is considered a crime under the criminal code. If the target feels threatened by any information published by the perpetrator on Twitter, the perpetrator can be charged with harassment which may be punished by up to ten years in prison. ' References 7 Küçüksüleymano?lu, R. (2019). Cyberbullying among secondary school teachers by parents. International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE), 8(1), 151. https://doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v8i1.16549 Liu, C., & Sui, D. (2016). Exploring the Spatiotemporal Pattern of Cyberbullying with Yik Yak. The Professional Geographer, 69(3), 412–423. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2016.1252273 Resnik, F., Bellmore, A., Xu, J.-M., & Zhu, X. (2016). Celebrities emerge as advocates in tweets about bullying. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 2(3), 323–334. https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000079 1 What Are the Consequences on Twitter Users? Asem Aldaej ENG 2322 Professor Rodesiler 3/17/2021 2 The Consequences of Bullying on Twitter Users Bullying on Twitter users has continued to be prevalent in recent years. Twitter is one of the principal online platforms reported to have high rates of cyberbullying among its users. Through its developers and management, the platform has put in numerous efforts to suspend all tweets classified to be discriminatory. However, cyberbullying and other biased tweets are still present and continue to be an issue of great concern among social media users due to its prevalence and the adverse effects it causes on Twitter users. Cyberbullying has a lot of negative consequences on Twitter users. Such bullying causes emotional, psychological, and physical distress on Twitter users. Twitter is a free platform; therefore, bullying is rampant because it has no strong guides eliminating underage individuals. The majority of these cyberbullying are directed towards appearance, racism, origin, among other concepts. Underage Twitter users are more affected by the bullying that has become prevalent on the Twitter platform (Resnik et al., 2016). That assertion is because this group of Twitter users lacks adequate strength to endure insults on this platform. Some of these children are affected by depression, anxiety, fear, reduced confidence, and low self-esteem, which is very common among Twitter users. Such cases are a little different when considering the older users that are becoming used to this twitter bullying, unlike the young individuals. Young people who are bullied on Twitter may show some alterations in behavior, mood, and emotions when compelled. They may also experience some mental and health issues as well projects a decline in their academic performance. Twitter has for a long time being very instrumental in different areas and used in enhancing the social network; however, it has also been 3 used in propagating other vices upon other Twitter users (Liu & Sui, 2016). This platform is considered the leading cyberbullying site compared to other social media sites such as Instagram, Facebook, and Linkedin, among other social media sites that rarely imply such misbehaviors. Bullying among Twitter users has a far-reaching effect and sometimes causing long-lasting low self-esteem. Most people find themselves in such absurd moments on Twitter from unfamiliar people or those they know very well. However, the victims' effects have the most significant impact on the receiver regardless of the person sending such insults. Common bullying on Twitter entails the use of insults, threats, and taunts that are done online. Those responsible for this vice use different technological gadgets such as tablets, smartphones, computers, or laptops to access the Twitter platform, attacking other Twitter users. The availability of these gadgets and other technological media has propelled cyberbullying since many people are engrossed in these gadgets for different purposes. A simple bullying text can be portrayed to affect a considerable population of Twitter users. Such bullying targets a group of people while the message is conveyed to an individual Twitter user (Küçüksüleymano?lu, 2019). Some may target an individual while quoting a specific stereotype that projects a larger population discrimination message. Such information has the potential to ruin the image and reputation of their victims, which can adversely affect their personal and professional life. It may take a more extended period to get one's reputation back moreso when portrayed in social media that can be reviewed for a long time. Twitter users can also bully their counterparts and go unidentified for a long period since they have the opportunity to have an anonymous profile. Posting derogatory information about a victim without the fear of being caught presents more adverse psychological consequences on the 4 victim being bulled. The bully, therefore, may keep on with their actions due to the assurance they have that they may never be found out. The victim lives in fear, not knowing the people responsible for such bullying tweets, which encourage more bullying in the whole platform. One of the consequences of bullying on Twitter users is that it adversely affects the victim's life to the extent that it can be life-threatening. Due to the distress that results from being bullied online, the victims may turn to drug abuse to cope with the bullies. Such victims also have a high tendency to suffer emotionally and from different physical issues. They also experience mental torture due to the bullying that may last, projecting physical damage caused by depression. For students bullied on Twitter, this highly affects the zeal to work hard in school and their social life, making them isolated from their peers at school. These students may consider suicide or avoid school because of being bullied, which injects the feeling of being incapable of doing whatever they do. Interventions towards Cyberbullying There are consequences aligned by the federal government that directly affect those responsible for bullying. Individuals bullying others on Twitter also suffer the consequences of their actions. The Federal and state lawmakers have formulated policies meant to curb the prevailing bullying rates on Twitter (Resnik et al., 2016). In some states, bullying on Twitter has been made a criminal act, therefore imposing criminal penalties to the perpetrators of bullying on this social media platform. The penalties imposed on individuals bullying others on Twitter include fines and being sentenced to jail. These authorities have set a considerable fine to be paid by the perpetrators or a longer jail term lasting for a year or longer. This is meant to discourage bullying on Twitter and other online platforms. 5 Learning institutions also have assigned responsibility to reduce bullying by the federal government to ease learning. These guidelines prohibit their students from engaging in any form of cyberbullying, including bullying other people on Twitter. Institutions ensure their students and other online platforms face disciplinary actions in their schools (Liu & Sui, 2016). In a school setting, the penalties for bullying on Twitter include suspension from the school and expulsion. Such corrections affect the students' ability to continue with their studies, and therefore they are forced to comply with the stipulated guidelines discouraging bullying. The legal consequences of cyberbullying affect the perpetrators. Bullying on Twitter users may result in a lawsuit filed against the responsible persons for defamation. Defamation of character claims is a serious crime that can result in long-term imprisonment for the person bullying others on Twitter. Depending on the type of bullying act on Twitter, the issue can be addressed differently on civil law or criminal law. There is a huge fine that can be imposed on these individuals or a jail term sentence to stop others from committing such illegal acts. The majority of these perpetrators have been captured and have served as an example to their colleagues that project to improve cyberbullying reports. Under the civic laws, cyberbullying on Twitter perpetrators may serve other consequences resulting from defamation. This happens when the Twitter bully spreads damaging and false information about a person or a particular incident without substantial proof. This misleading information is always harmful to the victim's image and reputation. Such deformation may happen temporarily in speeches that are not recorded or in a live broadcast. Precisely, this kind of defamation is called slander and is punishable under civil law (Küçüksüleymano?lu, 2019). It can also happen permanently with evidence from a written document online on a website or a book. 6 For bullying among Twitter users, defamatory remarks are very critical since they are punishable under federal law. In libel cases, the victim makes a suit against the person who published the information or posted the content on Twitter. When this laid claim is successful, the perpetrators responsible for defaming remarks must pay damages of those remarks to the victim. Bullying on Twitter makes the targets feel unsafe and uncomfortable in their environments. This affects their ability to feel free and engage in their daily activities, resulting in reduced productivity on the part of the target or the offended individual (Liu & Sui, 2016). The responsibility files the perpetrator if anything happens to the target. For instance, a person suggesting that a person should take away their lives for whichever reason will be held responsible if the target by any chance commits suicide. Bullying on Twitter is said to cause harassment to the victim, which is considered a crime under the criminal code. If the target feels threatened by any information published by the perpetrator on Twitter, the perpetrator can be charged with harassment which may be punished by up to ten years in prison. ' 7 References Küçüksüleymano?lu, R. (2019). Cyberbullying among secondary school teachers by parents. International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE), 8(1), 151. https://doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v8i1.16549 Liu, C., & Sui, D. (2016). Exploring the Spatiotemporal Pattern of Cyberbullying with Yik Yak. The Professional Geographer, 69(3), 412–423. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2016.1252273 Resnik, F., Bellmore, A., Xu, J.-M., & Zhu, X. (2016). Celebrities emerge as advocates in tweets about bullying. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 2(3), 323–334. https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000079 1 What Are the Consequences on Twitter Users? Asem Aldaej ENG 2322 Professor Rodesiler 3/17/2021 2 The Consequences of Bullying on Twitter Users Bullying on Twitter users has continued to be prevalent in recent years. Twitter is one of the principal online platforms reported to have high rates of cyberbullying among its users. Through its developers and management, the platform has put in numerous efforts to suspend all tweets classified to be discriminatory. However, cyberbullying and other biased tweets are still present and continue to be an issue of great concern among social media users due to its prevalence and the adverse effects it causes on Twitter users. Cyberbullying has a lot of negative consequences on Twitter users. Such bullying causes emotional, psychological, and physical distress on Twitter users. Twitter is a free platform; therefore, bullying is rampant because it has no strong guides eliminating underage individuals. The majority of these cyberbullying are directed towards appearance, racism, origin, among other concepts. Underage Twitter users are more affected by the bullying that has become prevalent on the Twitter platform (Resnik et al., 2016). That assertion is because this group of Twitter users lacks adequate strength to endure insults on this platform. Some of these children are affected by depression, anxiety, fear, reduced confidence, and low self-esteem, which is very common among Twitter users. Such cases are a little different when considering the older users that are becoming used to this twitter bullying, unlike the young individuals. Young people who are bullied on Twitter may show some alterations in behavior, mood, and emotions when compelled. They may also experience some mental and health issues as well projects a decline in their academic performance. Twitter has for a long time being very instrumental in different areas and used in enhancing the social network; however, it has also been 3 used in propagating other vices upon other Twitter users (Liu & Sui, 2016). This platform is considered the leading cyberbullying site compared to other social media sites such as Instagram, Facebook, and Linkedin, among other social media sites that rarely imply such misbehaviors. Bullying among Twitter users has a far-reaching effect and sometimes causing long-lasting low self-esteem. Most people find themselves in such absurd moments on Twitter from unfamiliar people or those they know very well. However, the victims' effects have the most significant impact on the receiver regardless of the person sending such insults. Common bullying on Twitter entails the use of insults, threats, and taunts that are done online. Those responsible for this vice use different technological gadgets such as tablets, smartphones, computers, or laptops to access the Twitter platform, attacking other Twitter users. The availability of these gadgets and other technological media has propelled cyberbullying since many people are engrossed in these gadgets for different purposes. A simple bullying text can be portrayed to affect a considerable population of Twitter users. Such bullying targets a group of people while the message is conveyed to an individual Twitter user (Küçüksüleymano?lu, 2019). Some may target an individual while quoting a specific stereotype that projects a larger population discrimination message. Such information has the potential to ruin the image and reputation of their victims, which can adversely affect their personal and professional life. It may take a more extended period to get one's reputation back moreso when portrayed in social media that can be reviewed for a long time. Twitter users can also bully their counterparts and go unidentified for a long period since they have the opportunity to have an anonymous profile. Posting derogatory information about a victim without the fear of being caught presents more adverse psychological consequences on the 4 victim being bulled. The bully, therefore, may keep on with their actions due to the assurance they have that they may never be found out. The victim lives in fear, not knowing the people responsible for such bullying tweets, which encourage more bullying in the whole platform. One of the consequences of bullying on Twitter users is that it adversely affects the victim's life to the extent that it can be life-threatening. Due to the distress that results from being bullied online, the victims may turn to drug abuse to cope with the bullies. Such victims also have a high tendency to suffer emotionally and from different physical issues. They also experience mental torture due to the bullying that may last, projecting physical damage caused by depression. For students bullied on Twitter, this highly affects the zeal to work hard in school and their social life, making them isolated from their peers at school. These students may consider suicide or avoid school because of being bullied, which injects the feeling of being incapable of doing whatever they do. Interventions towards Cyberbullying There are consequences aligned by the federal government that directly affect those responsible for bullying. Individuals bullying others on Twitter also suffer the consequences of their actions. The Federal and state lawmakers have formulated policies meant to curb the prevailing bullying rates on Twitter (Resnik et al., 2016). In some states, bullying on Twitter has been made a criminal act, therefore imposing criminal penalties to the perpetrators of bullying on this social media platform. The penalties imposed on individuals bullying others on Twitter include fines and being sentenced to jail. These authorities have set a considerable fine to be paid by the perpetrators or a longer jail term lasting for a year or longer. This is meant to discourage bullying on Twitter and other online platforms. 5 Learning institutions also have assigned responsibility to reduce bullying by the federal government to ease learning. These guidelines prohibit their students from engaging in any form of cyberbullying, including bullying other people on Twitter. Institutions ensure their students and other online platforms face disciplinary actions in their schools (Liu & Sui, 2016). In a school setting, the penalties for bullying on Twitter include suspension from the school and expulsion. Such corrections affect the students' ability to continue with their studies, and therefore they are forced to comply with the stipulated guidelines discouraging bullying. The legal consequences of cyberbullying affect the perpetrators. Bullying on Twitter users may result in a lawsuit filed against the responsible persons for defamation. Defamation of character claims is a serious crime that can result in long-term imprisonment for the person bullying others on Twitter. Depending on the type of bullying act on Twitter, the issue can be addressed differently on civil law or criminal law. There is a huge fine that can be imposed on these individuals or a jail term sentence to stop others from committing such illegal acts. The majority of these perpetrators have been captured and have served as an example to their colleagues that project to improve cyberbullying reports. Under the civic laws, cyberbullying on Twitter perpetrators may serve other consequences resulting from defamation. This happens when the Twitter bully spreads damaging and false information about a person or a particular incident without substantial proof. This misleading information is always harmful to the victim's image and reputation. Such deformation may happen temporarily in speeches that are not recorded or in a live broadcast. Precisely, this kind of defamation is called slander and is punishable under civil law (Küçüksüleymano?lu, 2019). It can also happen permanently with evidence from a written document online on a website or a book. 6 For bullying among Twitter users, defamatory remarks are very critical since they are punishable under federal law. In libel cases, the victim makes a suit against the person who published the information or posted the content on Twitter. When this laid claim is successful, the perpetrators responsible for defaming remarks must pay damages of those remarks to the victim. Bullying on Twitter makes the targets feel unsafe and uncomfortable in their environments. This affects their ability to feel free and engage in their daily activities, resulting in reduced productivity on the part of the target or the offended individual (Liu & Sui, 2016). The responsibility files the perpetrator if anything happens to the target. For instance, a person suggesting that a person should take away their lives for whichever reason will be held responsible if the target by any chance commits suicide. Bullying on Twitter is said to cause harassment to the victim, which is considered a crime under the criminal code. If the target feels threatened by any information published by the perpetrator on Twitter, the perpetrator can be charged with harassment which may be punished by up to ten years in prison. ' 7 References Küçüksüleymano?lu, R. (2019). Cyberbullying among secondary school teachers by parents. International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE), 8(1), 151. https://doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v8i1.16549 Liu, C., & Sui, D. (2016). Exploring the Spatiotemporal Pattern of Cyberbullying with Yik Yak. The Professional Geographer, 69(3), 412–423. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2016.1252273 Resnik, F., Bellmore, A., Xu, J.-M., & Zhu, X. (2016). Celebrities emerge as advocates in tweets about bullying. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 2(3), 323–334. https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000079 Asem Aldaej Twitter community March 1, 2021 1:00 pm to 6:59 pm 5 hours Consequences of Bullying on Twitter Users Observation Log Observation Thoughts Scenario A Scenario A; a new picture of a woman was just The woman is confident in her looks, and she uploaded with the #chilling. wants to show the world. The image is attractive; it portrays a woman in The world is accepting of her appearance, and her mid-thirties relaxing at home with her cat. they praise her giving her confirmation on her People seem to accept and appreciate the appearance. beauty of the person in the picture. Those who take delight in discouraging others A random stranger replied to the tweet by aim to degrade the Twitter user. pointing out her probable age based on the The predators target sensitive topics as age, picture. companionship, and social status to discourage Another tweet followed, commenting on the others. age and the cat. Once an idea has been introduced, several Several tweets start coming in questioning the other people follow suit and start criticizing choice to relax at home with a cat rather than a others; their objective is to make the user feel person while including terms as loneliness. bad, and in exchange, they will feel good about The user deletes the picture along with her themselves. other photos and the account. The user develops a sense of low worth and decides to escape the online community. Observation Thoughts Scenario B Nothing beats hanging out with friends, so said The aim was to show the world the beauty and the caption on the recently tweeted post. joy of friends grabbing a bite together. The friends' group was smiling and seemed to The post would attract more friends who be having a good time at the local pizza shop. would want to be part of the group. The tweet received praise for its cheerfulness People loved the energy of the group and and unity of friends. praised them while wanting to be part of the One specific tweet came through addressing group. one of the friends; it was a body-shaming Jealousy and envy are bound to appear; one tweet. way it appears is through discrimination of The tweet mentioned the extra pounds of one those who seem to have a better life. of the friends as it compared the friend to a Apart from discriminatory envy, users go to particular animal. the extreme of hurling insults to the other Others followed the tweet with the same person. opinion. Groups of people often develop courage after As a means of safety, the original tweet was seeing one person insult the other, and they deleted, and the user logged out for the day. join in shaming the person. Through deleting the tweet, the bullying stops, which limits mental harm. Report Cyberbullying has been in existence since the beginning of social media. The platforms allow the world to interact with each other while also giving predators a platform to discriminate. Those who target Twitter users look for something that they can use against the person. The most common traits that attract predators are features that seem out of the societal norm, such as relationship choices, body size, gender, race, and sexuality. Most of the cyber bullies also appear to be lonely, idle, and users who lack accomplishment in life. From checking on tweets from the bullies on different forums, it is easy to observe that they are mostly online trolling and spamming other tweeter users. Furthermore, they use fake pictures and names of influential people in the society as a representation of themselves. Nonetheless, the targeted users get negatively affected by the negative comments directed at their tweets. This in turn affects the users’ social and mental state of wellbeing. As observed, they pull off their posts and may stay out of twitter for a prolonged period of time while some may even delete their accounts. Twitter users who prey on others do so to have a sense of accomplishment and power over others. Conversely, those bullied develop low self-esteem and often avoid social media. There are various policies and practices to prevent cyberbullying; though not fully effective, the guidelines help curb the process and bullying results.