6 responses to “SEC disclaimers in the age of Twitter”

  1. AGORACOM - George

    Dominic, can you imagine the look on the faces of the lawyers when they first found out about RBH’s live tweets:

    JOHN: “Bob, brace yourself, our IR has been on TWITTER!”

    BOB: “TWITTER? TWITTER? Holy $%#^, call a meeting and get everyone in here. Marge, call my wife and tell her we won’t be going away this weekend.”

    JOHN: “What are we going to do? Do you think the world knows?”

    BOB: “I don’t know but we need disclaimers and fast. Long ones. Real long, big ass disclaimers so those Twitter people don’t revolt against us one day.”

    JOHN: “I think you only have like a couple of hundred characters, or something. They’re weird in that world”

    BOB: “Good god, man. What kind of people are we dealing with. Thank god we’re here to help them.”

    END

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  4. Communicatemag (Communicate Magazine)

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    And a rather amusing piece about the 4-tweet SEC disclaimer eBay need to post prior to any IR weeting. – [link to post]

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