This suggests that if you are a frequent Twitterer, your tweets have a really vast audience! And every word that your tweets speak has to be cautiously chosen for you never know who’s going to come across your tweet and who will then retweet them, and finally how the readers are going to react to them.
Twitter is the most popular social media platform and creates the same effects as the print media or the radio or television broadcast does. One wrong comment and you are gone forever. You never know if somebody uses your tweets to create a controversy or bring defamation for you. And even if the matter doesn’t go that bad and that far, they can still put you in embarrassing situations if they are not posted with caution.
This is what happened with some of the celebrity twitterers. Courtney Love’s controversial Twitter posts have not only brought her a lot of insult but have also brought her severe monitory losses as well. Her comments on fashion designer Dawn Simonrangkir has cost her millions of pounds as defamation claims. Her tweets have damaged her to a really great extent.
Similar to Courtney’s case, Ryan Babel too created a storming controversy through his Twitter posts. His Twitter post related to Howard Webb, the referee of the recent Manchester United Vs Liverpoool FA Cup game immensely damaged the footballer’s reputation bringing him instant defamatory comments from the audiences as well as sports critics.
It is not that only the popular Twitterers or the celebrities on Twitter who have to face such troubles, even the commoners on Twitter can be in trouble due to their controversial tweets. And it is not just the movie, rock, or sport stars who actively post Twitter updates. There are several many famous and not so famous, big and not so big businesses advertising and promoting their companies, services, and products through Twitter. Then there are the news makers or the journalists, the politicians, and even the enthusiastic citizens from the world over, who keep tweeting from time to time. And if they forget to be a little cautious before posting their tweets, they too may have to face storming tribulations!
So next time when you post a comment against your competitors, or overly popularize your product or service through tweets, just remember if your comments are controversial or promotions are baseless, you too may have to pay huge penalties!