Comments on: You Better Think Before You Twit

By: Bill Hartzer

Bill Hartzer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Very sound advice. I was once quoted in a major newspaper. All the reporter did was look at my tweets and copied one of my tweets from 3 months earlier and added that tweet as a quote into a financial news article.

So, you never know when someone will see something you said on twitter.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

truth is people should do this all the time everyday no matter if online or offline

By: Eyebee

Eyebee — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve never yet had to delete a twitter, but yes, I’ll agree it’s easy to tweet something you might regret later.

At least when composing an email, you get time to think what you’re saying, and re-read it over before hitting send (what do you mean, you never read your own email before you send it?)

By: Roy Scribner

Roy Scribner — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Twitter is a good training tool for “think before you click” – since it’s such an instantaneous technology.

By: River Girl

River Girl — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Very good points.

By: rama

rama — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i thought its only temporarily… in anticipation of the election loads, and DELETE can reduce your DBs performance. The delete function will be back after the vote is done.. so i heard.

By: adrian

adrian — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

so the home page should read: “What are you doing? Think about it.”

although if it’s temporary, “What are you doing? Think about it. Never mind.” would work.

we won!!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is all well and good, and is some very sound advice (some I should have followed myself more than once) … however, the delete function has been restored… a quick glance at the Twitter Status blog would have helped this post be more fact-driven and less rick-driven ;) http://status.twitter.com/post/57958888/deleting-posts-temporarily-suspended (we still love ya though, Allen.) :-D

By: bryan Thatcher

bryan Thatcher — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The only time I’ve ever used the delete key is when a typo (yeah I know a lot of typos) slip thru that really should be corrected

By: Miiko Mentz

Miiko Mentz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Both your IW and this one are good posts and solid advice. It’s something I think about from time to time. I blogged about it myself last year: http://is.gd/6suB. It was a post on how Stacy Snyder lost her student teaching job after posting a picture of herself on her MySpace profile wearing a pirate hat. She had wrote the comment “drunken pirate” and it ended up costing her greatly. She lost her job and teaching certificate. It’s was a harmless pic and comment to the rest of us, but to her employer it was not so harmless.

I think Twitter is even more dangerous because it’s so easy to just tweet some random thought in passing that ends up offending others and you may not even think it’s anything bad, but others do. And it can cost you a job, a client, a project, etc.

However, on the flip side of that, do we really want to work for, or with, someone who is offended by what we say? Online and offline, I’ve done my share of offending and rarely regret it because it’s not that I said or did anything wrong it’s merely a case of different viewpoints, different opinions, different personalities.

But, I suppose that I could do a little more thinking before posting, especially with twitter.
;-)

Good advice Allen!

By: Stop Smoking

Stop Smoking — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Excellent points. Good for other sites as well…