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The greatest risk factors, they claim:
1. Exposure of company secrets
2. Invasion of privacy and defamation
3. Trademark violations (claiming a relationship with a company when no such relationship exists)
4. Wrongful termination claims (where employees claim to have been wrongfully fired based on Tweets about their employer)
The bottom line: think before you Tweet. We all know that Tweets can't be undone once they've been blasted to your thousands of friends, and even deleting them doesn't remove them from Twitter search. If it doubt, don't Tweet.
You can read the full NLJ article at Law.com.
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