The dangers of letting others 'twitter' for you

As we all know, politicians say they're on Twitter. Most aren't, of course; they get some staffer to update 'their Twitter' with banal PR links.

Alan Kelly is a Labour MEP. He has 'a Twitter'. And, like his colleagues, he gets others to 'twitter' on it. Except someone tweeted a fairly un-PC remark from his account about an hour ago.

 

Kelly (or, more likely, someone 'twittering' for him) has since apologised. The apology claims that his "account was compromised". It's actually the kind of phrase that a fellow politician -- with no clue about Twitter or the web -- might regard as being plausible.

I don't believe that the account was compromised. 

If you let on that a Twitter account is your own, you can't then cry foul when stuff you wouldn't approve gets written on it.

Comments

[Psneeze]

Going back through his stream I notice the offending Tweet was the only one sent via TweetDeck. All others, with the exception of the Keith Barry one, were sent using Twitter's website.

A possibly scenario is that he and/or his proxy-Tweeter were trying out TweetDeck and Echofon on his iPhone and accidentally published a test Tweet. #justsaying

[Adrian Weckler]

Good theory...