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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts) Mon Dec 9, 2013, 10:43 PM Dec 2013

CNN.com: How Twitter can kill your career

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/05/opinion/obeidallah-tweet-pitfalls/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

Who 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.

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CNN.com: How Twitter can kill your career (Original Post) LiberalElite Dec 2013 OP

Facebook as well DJ13 Dec 2013 #1

Just as long as you supply the info Boom Sound 416 Dec 2013 #7

Should be how the internet can kill Egnever Dec 2013 #2

If you're a jerk Lex Dec 2013 #3

Even if you're not a jerk defacto7 Dec 2013 #11

I don't have twitter or facebook. NaturalHigh Dec 2013 #4

That's nice. nt Lex Dec 2013 #5

Thanks Lex. NaturalHigh Dec 2013 #10

140 characters? Boom Sound 416 Dec 2013 #6

Ha! nt ZombieHorde Dec 2013 #9

broadcasting inappropriate statements has always been a potential career killer.... unblock Dec 2013 #8

Twitter hasn't "killed" anyone's career. WillowTree Dec 2013 #12

DJ13

(23,671 posts)

1. Facebook as well

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 10:45 PM

Dec 2013

Any social media can be used against you by unscrupulous employers and other assorted asshats.

Boom Sound 416

(4,185 posts)

7. Just as long as you supply the info

Reply to DJ13 (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 10:53 PM

Dec 2013

Egnever

(21,506 posts)

2. Should be how the internet can kill

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 10:46 PM

Dec 2013

it is not limited to twitter.

Lex

(34,108 posts)

3. If you're a jerk

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 10:48 PM

Dec 2013

of some kind it will come out on Twitter fairly quickly. And then BOOM.

defacto7

(13,485 posts)

11. Even if you're not a jerk

Reply to Lex (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 12:01 AM

Dec 2013

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)

4. I don't have twitter or facebook.

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 10:48 PM

Dec 2013

Never will.

Lex

(34,108 posts)

5. That's nice. nt

Reply to NaturalHigh (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 10:50 PM

Dec 2013

NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)

10. Thanks Lex.

Reply to Lex (Reply #5)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 11:27 PM

Dec 2013

Boom Sound 416

(4,185 posts)

6. 140 characters?

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 10:51 PM

Dec 2013

Hell, I get in trouble with just two of my buddies.

ZombieHorde

(29,047 posts)

9. Ha! nt

Reply to Boom Sound 416 (Reply #6)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 11:11 PM

Dec 2013

unblock

(52,277 posts)

8. broadcasting inappropriate statements has always been a potential career killer....

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 10:57 PM

Dec 2013

it's just that these days, it's so much easier to broadcast.

WillowTree

(5,325 posts)

12. Twitter hasn't "killed" anyone's career.

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 12:51 AM

Dec 2013

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'.

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