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1. Exposing Company Secrets – Employee tweets may convey proprietary or confidential information of your company and its clients. 2. Contracts – Using tweets to interfere with known contractual relationships or to inadvertently form contracts could lead to legal trouble. 3. Trademark Infringement – Tweets can misuse, dilute or cause confusion regarding a trademark. 4. Retaliation / Wrongful Termination – Employees could claim retaliation or being fired over tweets (ex. tweets about harassment at work). 5. Defamation – Tweets could harm someone’s reputation. Tweets Top Five Legal Issues for Businesses (each, 140 characters or less) Gaida Zirkelbach, Esq. 561.650.0583 [email protected] www.linkedin.com/in/gaida www.twitter.com/gaida
