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An Anonymous Coward writes:

That businessman/reality TV star who just won the New Hampshire primary is far from the only famous person addicted to sharing his current thoughts and mood on Twitter [twitter.com]. When you do that, you're bound to eventually make a mistake that has consequences. This time it was Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and co-founder of Netscape (and lead developer for the Mosaic Web browser before that), who got busted for tweeting a thought [siliconbeat.com] that shouldn't have left the hotel bar:

Indians complained; [twitter.com] evidently they've grown accustomed to having their own country. It was noticed that Andreessen sits on the board of Facebook, which has been unsuccessfully trying to peddle free Internet service [thedailybeast.com] (featuring Facebook, of course) to India for awhile. Oops. Mark Zuckerberg wasn't pleased [facebook.com].

Andreessen, a master of the multi-part tweet, quickly backpeddled [siliconbeat.com]. And the original tweet was deleted.

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