The politics of social media and CLTs (career limiting tweets)
I feel sympathy for Stuart MacLennan but his case shows that a lot people still do not get social media, and Twitter specifically, or seem to understand they are in the personal publishing business no different from a blog.
He isn’t the first social media casualty and he probably won’t be the last, he’s just the one who made the front pages in the same week that John Prescott urged supporters to engage in click fraud and a week after UKIP PPC Paul Wiffen was suspended after hitting out at a blog post highlighting the party’s immigration policy. Read More

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