Brandon Phillips Becomes the Paragon of the Tweeting Athlete

Though it has been around for years and now has lengthy catalogs of precedents and procedures, Twitter continues to flummox professional athletes. There is no shortage of examples of what not to do and say on the social network, from attacking fans to cursing out teammates to expressing a minority political or cultural opinion, and yet many players still get bogged down in the mire of Twitter. Whether or not such criticisms are justified is irrelevant; at the heart of the matter is that some athletes falter heavily when trying to use Twitter, while only a few thrive.