By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
President Obama’s decision to join Twitter unleashed a torrent of hateful, even threatening tweets that have already caught the attention of the Secret Service.
Not only that, the White House is archiving every response to @POTUS, the Washington Post reports.
So the newspaper kindly reminds readers to be wise when tweeting to the president of the United States.
“Just seconds after posting something online it has likely been disseminated to dozens of people and definitely been archived by an unknowable number of automated systems,” the programmer Pehr Hovey wrote in his master’s thesis on deleted tweets in 2010. “Though a delete button may provide solace to those having second thoughts, in reality it is a façade.”
