Think Before You Tweet, H1z1 Dev Warns

Speaking today at the 2015 Game Developers Conference, a top community manager at H1Z1 and EverQuest developer Daybreak Game Company (formerly Sony Online Entertainment) spoke about the potential danger of Twitter. Jones, who works as senior community manager at the studio, said it is essential that developers realize what they tweet is very much public.As such, it is Jones' job, or at least part of his job, to work with developers at Daybreak to help them understand that their tweets can be potentially problematic for the company."Putting your teams on Twitter with no training--you might as well just hand them a loaded gun and send them out into the world," Jones said during a packed panel called "Balancing Community Management With Transparent Development.""The ability we have on the Internet to say whatever we want whenever we want to say it is extremely dangerous," he added.Jones doesn't censor what his team members say on Twitter; after all, he couldn't.

 

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