And … A Conviction From Twittering

In our “Think Before Your Tweet” piece, we discussed the potential risksassociated with ranting via Twitter. With Twitter serving as a new basis for conversation, social media users feel that they are speaking only to their online friends when they post something on a public Twitter page.  Unfortunately, a public Twitter page creates a critical social media risk:  a simple, angry rant can turn into a much bigger deal when it is put in electronic form and essentially published to millions of readers on the internet. Social media law is still developing, leaving room for confusion on part of social media users.

A British man recently learned a hard lesson on social media risk associated with angry Twittering. 

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