The dangers of social media in 140 characters or fewer
ByStefan Morkis
Twitter has become an invaluable tool for journalists: allowing them to disseminate information and source stories.
But it can be very easy for a journalist on a deadline to mistakenly post something on an official account rather than their personal one, as the above embarrassing Tweet shows.
Unfortunately for whoever was in charge of the STV News account, even though the Tweet was swiftly deleted it had already been spotted by other users, such as Andy Brown, and saved for posterity.
STV’s own digital political correspondent Stephen Daisley was one of the first to comment: