

Twitter, with its 328 million users, has recently changed its most famous and infamous feature, the 140-character limit. If you don’t work for yourself, be aware of company policies about the use of social media - more and more corporations are instituting or revising their policies.

(Twitter and Snapchat, for example, recently announced major changes that are described below.) Social media changes all the time, so it’s important to keep up with the evolution of the platforms and to keep looking for ways to optimize your use of the available the tools. So, the more seriously you can take your social media activities, the better. There are ways in which you can try to safeguard your privacy and control who sees particular content, but the onus is on you to be vigilant.

The fact is that it’s impossible to separate the personal use of social from the professional, and everything you say online can and will be used against you.
