The complete guide to social media failures

International Business Times

Apps dial up privacy concerns
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
In the wake of Path's apology, other popular social media app companies acknowledged that they too retrieved users' address books. Social networking services Twitter, FourSquare, Instagram and FoodSpotting all said they would update their services soon ...
Twitter Secretly Collecting Personal Data: Controversy EruptsInternational Business Times
Apple moves to stop Facebook and Twitter accessing iPhone users' address books ...Daily Mail
Twitter app delves into smartphone contact listBigmouthmedia News
ZDNet (blog) -Sydney Morning Herald -Mashable
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Bleacher Report

Jason Whitlock Should Be Fired After Lame Apology for Jeremy Lin Twitter Comment
Bleacher Report
His tweet regarding New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin crossed the line, however, and after an insincere apology, he deserves to be fired. Last week during Lin's virtuoso performance against the Los Angeles Lakers, Whitlock posted an insensitive tweet ...


S&P Capital IQ Leveraged Commentary and Data (LCD) Launches Website Dedicated ...
Sacramento Bee
Each of the site's many components has been enabled for social sharing, making it easy to tweet about an individual news story or to email job postings or market stats to others. The website includes both news reporting and analysis of key market ...

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TV Thursday: Doc Zone's Who's Sorry Now?
Montreal Gazette
BP CEO Tony Hayward, the program points out, was a career geologist, and ill-equipped to manage a media frenzy in the age of Twitter, Facebook and instant communication. One analyst remarks how the very skills that allow an executive to be promoted to ...
The art of saying sorryEdmonton Journal
'Sorry' program worth watchingRegina Leader-Post

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TV Thursday: Doc Zone's Who's Sorry Now?
Edmonton Journal
BP CEO Tony Hayward, the program points out, was a career geologist, and ill-equipped to manage a media frenzy in the age of Twitter, Facebook and instant communication. One analyst remarks how the very skills that allow an executive to be promoted to ...
'Sorry' program worth watchingRegina Leader-Post
CEOs and public figures can end up being sorry for their apologiesMontreal Gazette

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TV Thursday: Doc Zone's Who's Sorry Now?
Vancouver Sun
BP CEO Tony Hayward, the program points out, was a career geologist, and ill-equipped to manage a media frenzy in the age of Twitter, Facebook and instant communication. One analyst remarks how the very skills that allow an executive to be promoted to ...


Sydney Morning Herald

Smartphone apps dial up privacy worries
Baltimore Sun
In the wake of Path's apology, other popular social media app companies acknowledged that they too retrieved users' address books. Social networking services Twitter, FourSquare, Instagram and FoodSpotting all said they would update their services soon ...
Apple iPhone 4S: The company moved to stem controversy over how apps from ...Daily Mail
Twitter app delves into smartphone contact listBigmouthmedia News
App permissions: We are our worst enemyZDNet (blog)
ZDNet UK -Mashable -Sydney Morning Herald
all 569 news articles »

Sydney Morning Herald

Twitter sued over Hardy tweet
Sydney Morning Herald
It was a tweet seen around the world, and now that Hardy (below) has already reached a confidential legal settlement with Mr Meggitt, believed to be about $15000, and published an apology on her blog, his lawyers are seeking damages from the social ...

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Gather.com

Chris Brown Responds to Twitter Death; Deletes Tweet Afterward
Gather.com
You shouldn't be, because Breezy simply wouldn't be Breezy without his knee-jerk reactions and constant redactions in the form of posting and deleting his tweets. Anyway, this latest update comes from PopCrush, which also shared the original Gather ...

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The Age

Twitter sued over Hardy tweet
The Age
It was a tweet seen around the world, and now that Hardy (below) has already reached a confidential legal settlement with Mr Meggitt, believed to be about $15000, and published an apology on her blog, his lawyers are seeking damages from the social ...

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The art of saying sorry
Edmonton Journal
BP CEO Tony Hayward, the program points out, was a career geologist, and ill-equipped to manage a media frenzy in the age of Twitter, Facebook and instant communication. Who's Sorry Now? may be short on creativity as program-making, but the subject is ...
'Sorry' program worth watchingRegina Leader-Post
Fine Tuning: Documentary Who's Sorry Now? topical, timely and stimulatingOttawa Citizen
CEOs and public figures can end up being sorry for their apologiesMontreal Gazette

all 10 news articles »

International Business Times

Apple moves to stop Facebook and Twitter accessing iPhone users' address books ...
Daily Mail
Technology bloggers soon discovered that iPhone apps like Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Foodspotting similarly uploaded user data - without permission, in some cases. Fears were raised that the highly private and sensitive data could be intercepted ...
Twitter Secretly Collecting Personal Data: Controversy EruptsInternational Business Times
Smartphone apps dial up privacy worriesBaltimore Sun
Twitter app delves into smartphone contact listBigmouthmedia News
ZDNet (blog) -Sydney Morning Herald -Mashable
all 610 news articles »

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@Derek_DEIMOS So I see you have decided to grace us with your presence again. I thought you had committed twittercide!
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HeroKatie (Katie )

Next time I twittercide Im gonna come back as a spambot.
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ElskaLiam (Just Liam)

@BabylonIsFallen Hey you're bustin my move I was going to twittercide!
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eventuates (Paul )

@rync8 @KatieCCO The only option left is Twittercide obviously.
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KCCOPittsburgh (KCCO Pittsburgh)

I'm on the edge of twittercide
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erkj72 (Erk)

S/O to Isaac Lax even though he committed twittercide http://t.co/mRAqQFEgKz
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Hahaha, what a bum. “@PWSullivan: Ian Stewart tries to tweet his way to an early release from Cubs. #Twittercide http://t.co/DLt65NWB29”
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ImTheGDBatman (Nick Crawford)

A day will come, my followers having had enough of my tweets will commit twittercide. A proud moment for me for I pushed them to real life
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Vargovesque (Yours Truly)

There's wisdom in the fact that twitter doesn't notify me when I lose a follower. If it did, I would have committed twittercide long ago.
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_Zosimos ( Books & Bowties )

@Darinsvenson Are you following Ian Stewart on Twitter? The man is killing his career via Twittercide.
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albersbr (Bradley Albers)

Kiss me!! • we both can • • twittercide & disappear •
1 week 12 hours ago
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Emax31 (ⱤєѕuɼɼєстєԀ קɧαɼαoн)

@BrooklynFagut no sir. The day I delete will be the day you witness the greatest #Twittercide ever.
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AwkwardDrunkGuy (Jay)

Oh Ian, WTF are you doing? MT @PWSullivan Stewart tries to tweet his way to early release from Cubs. #Twittercide http://t.co/o7kX5dPUKV
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purplerowBK (Bryan Kilpatrick ⚾)

Yeah that happened. “@PWSullivan: Ian Stewart tries to tweet his way to an early release from Cubs. #Twittercide http://t.co/s14qzwF5q6”
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mkthielke (Matt Thielke)

Twittercide, but with a loaded .38 special
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IBS4ME (4-Flush McGruff)

Ian Stewart tries to tweet his way to an early release from Cubs. #Twittercide http://t.co/A0XoefRETK
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PWSullivan (Paul Sullivan)

Every time I go to Twittercide, I get drawn back in. Who are you people!?
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DontLookForMeh_ (MJ)

You CAN diagnose crazy by how many times they decide to Twittercide.
1 week 14 hours ago
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tryped (Colin)

Lets make a joke about leaving Twitter and call the last tweet (aka twittercide note) a kweet. Or queet. Queef? Or not.
1 week 15 hours ago
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kreefalicious (gman)

@Bradsh4w I cancelled my twittercide to keep up to date with the vendetta crap... the metaphors were getting too much
1 week 16 hours ago
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bJosi00 (I Am BJ)

Trying Not to commit #Twittercide so Imma jump of ya timeline.
1 week 16 hours ago
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iamsuede (iamsuede™)

twittercide, only for real life, because my tweets are too good to erase. But the rest of me can go.
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Katiebug701 (KatieBug)

Know the real reason I'll never commit Twittercide? You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you and definitely YOU.
1 week 19 hours ago
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JaneVenter (The Miller's Tale)

It’s time for your biannual twittercide.
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RummyLauded (The Muse)

“@BrunetteBetchh: I wish some of y'all would twittercide.” @ me, whore.
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