getting arrested on Twitter

Last year (or was it the year before?), someone got fired over a tweet, other people fight over a tweet and sometimes people get arrested over a tweet. This week some Dutch teenager got arrested because she threatened to bomb het school. Tweets are no longer a joke, no longer just a thought within 140 characters. So be careful what you tweet into the world. Users consider tweets as serious content now. Twitter has grown up.

Before I moved I stopped using Twitter and had about ten tweets in five weeks, that’s not a lot for someone who was once addicted to Twitter. I guess I am back in the ‘real’ world now. maybe when other users take Twitter seriously, I move away from it.

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