Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Discipling Twitterers: Managers Seeking Control of Employees/Players

News is spreading in both the sports and business world with managers trying to keep the employees and players under control. NFL star Antonio Cromartie was just fined $2,500 for violating NFL and San Diego Chargers rules by bashing the teams training camp meals on Twitter. ESPN/NBA analyst posted a note today that ESPN sent a memo to employees that they were implementing a company Twitter policy "prohibiting tweeting info unless it serves ESPN."

The $2,500 tweet in question, according to NBC Sports, originated on July 31, and states: “Man we have 2 have the most nasty food of any team. Damn can we upgrade 4 str8 years the same ish maybe that’s y we can’t we the SB we need.”

The ESPN Tweet from Ric Bucher is Below:



These two stories topped "Tuesday Twitter Limitation" that was started with news that the United States Marines have also banner social media sites on their network.