ESPN Tells Employees They Can Only Tweet About ESPN

Today is a landmark day for social media, but for all the wrong reasons. Earlier we learned that the United States Marines have banned social media sites on their network, and now we’re discovering that ESPN might have just dropped “the hammer” when it comes to employee tweeting.

In a tweet that may or may not defy the new ESPN policy, an NBA analyst for ESPN, Ric Bucher, said that the big-time sports broadcasting network is “prohibiting tweeting info unless it serves ESPN.”

We got wind of ESPN’s foul-worthy activity through an NPR post on the subject. Full story...