Monica Lewinsky has 3 tweets, 68 thousand followers On Twitter

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Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern whose affair with ex-President Bill Clinton led to his impeachment, joined Twitter and also gave her first speech in 13 years earlier this week, marking her return to public life.

With just three tweets, the 41-year-old brunette, who had almost disappeared into oblivion after the 1998 sex scandal, has garnered nearly 68 thousand followers of her account verified by Twitter.

 

On her @MonicaLewinsky profile, Lewinsky calls herself a social activist, public speaker, contributor to Vanity Fair magazine and a "knitter of things without sleeves."

Her first tweet was "#HereWeGo" while the second tweet said she was "excited (and nervous) to speak" at the Forbes Under 30 Summit.

 

In an emotional address at the Forbes’ Under 30 summit in Philadelphia, Lewinsky spoke of being a victim of cyber bullying after she "fell in love" with Clinton. She said she is starting a campaign to end the online abuse.

"I was Patient Zero," she said, "The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet. There was no Facebook, Twitter or Instagram back then."

"But there were gossip, news and entertainment websites replete with comment sections and emails which could be forwarded. Of course, it was all done on the excruciatingly slow dial up. Yet around the world this story went. A viral phenomenon that, you could argue, was the first moment of truly ’social media’," she said.

The motivation to fight cyber-bullying, she said, came after the 2010 suicide of an 18-year-old student in US who was haunted online after being secretly filmed kissing another man.

"Having survived myself, what I want to do now is help other victims of the shame game survive, too. I want to put my suffering to good use and give purpose to my past," she said.