Lance Armstrong learns a Twitter lesson
So what happens when you combine twittering and easy access to athletes, stars and coaches via a simple click of the “follow” button?
Anyone could tell you that by allowing unfettered access to the people we most look up to without any regulation only spells disaster.
Lance Armstrong, or @lancearmstrong for the Twittering crowd recently discovered the hard way that having 697,000 followers is both a blessing and a curse.
In a public guesture to share some of his videos friday, Lance linked to two defunct videos on private video sharing network, Flip Video.
Unfortunately, the videos did not work and the error message included the email address of the email of the person who uploaded the missing videos. In this case, Tour de France legend Lance Armstrong’s personal email address just went public to 697,000 “followers”.
And the aftermath, as you can imagine wasn’t pretty.
So lesson learned. And the worst part is Twitter doesn’t provide you the chance to delete any of your last Tweets. So hard lesson learned and the only casualty was 1 email address which will almost certainly be changed.
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