Is this the sort of thing a reasonable person would do? I think not.
UPDATE: It gets stranger...
Over on The Blog That Peter Wrote is a piece going into more detail about what happened.
Cole has appeared in the comments saying
Peter, I like a lot of what you write so was sad to see this one. The tweet was done at the heat of the moment and does fall more into your latter suggestion [that, as Peter puts it, Cole "'innocently' amended the tweet because there wasn't space to put his insult about Ireland's wife in the 140 characters"] of space. So furious at the ridiculous allegation of the original tweet that on reflection I should probably have stopped and retweeted the original in whole at first. However the allegation that I was somehow threatening to his wife and kids is and remains bs. As I went on to explain in further tweets, Ireland is deluded with his giant conspiratorial web, that I'm frankly bored of being slightly tangled in. I stand by my denial of his assertions and am more annoyed I broke the first and second rules of Tim Ireland club. Engaging.I think that Cole has misinterpreted Peter's view - see how "innocently" is in quotation marks and how he notes that it carries on about Mrs. Tim. He also says
That I am in anyway protecting someone and thus a threat to your family is a crock Tim. That is the allegation you made and that is my denial. Again.Even though - as is clear from the two images - Tim made no such claim.
At the best, it seems that reading comprehension isn't Cole's strong point.
At worst, we it appears that Cole wanted to alter Tim's original message in order to give misleading impression of him, and, in a later message, to suggest that Tim has a persecution complex towards Cole. Tweet
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