The Internet Never Forgets (No Matter Who You Are)

The CFO of Twitter recently made headlines by (apparently) accidentally tweeting information about an upcoming business deal:

• Get the New York Times story: Twitter’s C.F.O. Suffers a Social Media Faux Pas

This event — and the CFO’s inability to take the information back out of the public space — demonstrates one of our principles, “Sharing Releases Control“. And as the last sentence of the New York Times article puts it, “But as is often proved time and again on the Internet, nothing is ever truly deleted off the Web.”