Twitter revolutionized small talk. Now it's rankling bigwigs.
Although the popular social networking site limits each post to 140 characters, there appears to be no limit to the anxiety it's causing major players in sports, media, business, the courts, the military and other fields.
Attempts to regulate Twitter's use at work, at school and on government time are soaring, and examples of Twitter jitters abound. Posts, called tweets, are resulting in fines, lawsuits, scolding and shame.
For reasons of message control, security concerns and competitive advantage, some employers are restricting Twitter use by training their employees or banning what they can say on such sites and when they can say it. Reaction to this spans from reluctant acceptance to open revolt; a tennis star called new tweeting regulations “lame” last month, and a Cincinnati Bengals football player closed his Twitter account Friday with a tweet saying the NFL's rules had taken the fun out of it.
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Tags: informal learning, digital media, twitter, social networking
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