Love it or hate it, Twitter is a powerful Internet tool that's here to stay. But some people fail to realize its power.
Twitter will broadcast your bursts of thought to anyone who cares to read them. Sometimes this has some significantly negative repercussions.
In the case of the following 13 people, their tweets literally cost them their jobs.
Learn from their mistakes, and think twice before you tweet!
Don't tweet bad things about your potential employer
Connor Riley had a job offer from Cisco on the table. She tweeted: “Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work.”
Shortly after that, there was a reply from Cisco employee Tim Levad: “Who is the hiring manager? I’m sure they would love to know that you will hate the work. We here at Cisco are versed in the Web.”
Sexual assault is never funny
Nir Rosen was a Law Fellow at New York University until he tweeted some astonishing remarks about Lara Logan's sexual assault.
The string of insensitive tweeting began with "Lara Logan had to outdo Anderson. Where was her buddy McCrystal." He was soon apologizing profusely and resigned from his fellowship the next day.
Fired for insensitive jokes about Japan
Comedian Gilbert Gottfried, voice of the Aflac duck, made some jokes about the Japanese tsunami over Twitter. He said, "Japan is really advanced. They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them."
Aflac is the largest insurance company in Japan. Gottfried was fired.
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