The Twitter: Use WIth Care

The Secret Service may still be struggling to figure out The Google, but the rest of the world (or at least the part of that exists online, such as it is) has moved on to Twitter. Now Twitter may look innocuous enough — it comes in 140 character after all and it’s logo is a little bird &151; but the microblogging service has been getting some people in trouble of late.

We mentioned last week how a Colorado newspaper was on the receiving end of a lot of criticism for Twittering the funeral of a three year old boy.

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