It always amuses me when I see people being rude (or worse) about family, friends, work colleagues or bosses on twitter. I assume, in as much as any of this is thought out, that they do this apparently safe in the knowledge that the brunt of their ire or distaste is not on twitter, and so will never find out.
I’d be more careful if I were you. Those of us who use twitter regularly know it is a conversational medium, and we can’t really see the point of not engaging in dialogue. But, not everyone is like that. I come across people all the time who join twitter purely to follow celebrities and read their (usually banal) utterings. And there are others who sign up simply to keep tabs on family and friends. These people have twitter accounts, but hardly ever use them to say anything. And, there are still others who are not on twitter at all, but have bookmarked the unprotected tweets of people they want to monitor and regularly read their updates.
Think about this before you tweet…..
