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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN.com: How Twitter can kill your career
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/05/opinion/obeidallah-tweet-pitfalls/index.html?iid=article_sidebarWho could've ever predicted that 140 characters could screw up so many people's lives?
But that's exactly what has happened to politicians, executives, government staff and others because of their comments on Twitter. This social media platform has morphed from a fun place to an information hub to a career killer.
DJ13
(23,671 posts)Any social media can be used against you by unscrupulous employers and other assorted asshats.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)it is not limited to twitter.
Lex
(34,108 posts)of some kind it will come out on Twitter fairly quickly. And then BOOM.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)things can be twisted into something that backfires... or if your politics is not in sync with your employer or an unscrupulous colleague. The possibilities are hard to count.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Never will.
Lex
(34,108 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)Hell, I get in trouble with just two of my buddies.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)unblock
(52,331 posts)it's just that these days, it's so much easier to broadcast.
WillowTree
(5,325 posts)The idiots who post their idiocies in 140 characters or less for all the world to see on Twitter did it all to themselves. Twitter just provided the forum.
Twitter didn't "kill" Anthony Weiner's career. Anthony Weiner destroyed his own career. Twice.
Just sayin'.