Be Careful What to Tweet

This week alone there were two minor scandals on Twitter that reached the media, both about someone who tweeted something that the wrong (or right, depends on what way you look at it) person read. The first was a Dutch politician who publicly discriminated Chinese people;

Basically he said ‘I easily overlook a gook, there are so many!’, since tweets of most Dutch politicians are being collected on kamertweets.nl a large audience witnessed this particular tweet. He did appologize for this, as a politician he has too. But harm had been done. Another guy just got a job offer from Cisco and tweeted about it;

Not too long after this Cisco channel partner advocate Tim Levad responded, ‘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‘, oops! The lesson today is to be careful what you tweet or write, about on any social media for that matter. Even if you delete a tweet it will still be visible on Twitter Search, at least for a while. Nothing wrong with critism on Twitter, but if you get negative about your job or a whole group of people, you never know who follows or read you in the end.