Weiner's experience serves as a warning about the numerous ways online activities can expose personal information. A Twitterer need not hit send to let secrets slip: A user can be judged not only on what he tweets, but also on the digital relationships he forms online. Months before Weinergate erupted, a self-described conservative group started tracking what users Weiner had chosen to follow on Twitter and made a discovery: The congressman appeared to have a predilection for following young women. The group, which used the hashtag #bornfreecrew, cautioned some of the women to be wary of Weiner, among them Gennette Cordova, the Washington co-ed to whom he later tweeted the image of his underwear. The crew, "closely monitored those whom Mr. Weiner was following, taking it upon themselves to contact young women they believed to be 'schoolgirls,' and urging them publicly to stay away from him, according to an analysis of posts on Twitter's public stream,” wrote The New York Times. "By early May, members of the group were also speculating that Mr. Weiner would be caught in a sex scandal."
Friday, June 10, 2011
What Anthony Weiner Didn't Say On Twitter Also Got Him Into Trouble
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