James Poniewozik

摘要

REPRESENTATIVE ANTHONY WEINER IS not the first public figure to be undone by an errant hand on his Twitter. (Let me be up front: there will be any number of unfortunate double entendres in this column.) But he's now the most prominent person to be damaged by the very immediacy and reach that make Twitter such a powerful tool. (Ahem. As I said.) One lapse of judgment—or one false click after several lapses of judgment—and a career implodes. For lack of a better word, let us call this increasingly common phenomenon twimmolation.