Manchester United has become the first Premiership club to ban its players from using social networking sites such as Twitter.
In a statement released on to United's website last night - under the title 'player websites warning' - the club said that it wished to "make it clear that no Manchester United players maintain personal profiles on social networking websites."
Manchester United has become the first Premiership club to ban its players from using social networking sites such as Twitter.
Twitter gets the boot
It added that "fans encountering any web pages purporting to be written by United players should treat them with extreme scepticism" and that "any official news relating to Manchester United or its players will be communicated via ManUtd.com."
Since the statement the Twitter accounts of several United players have been taken down, including that of Ryan Giggs, Darren Fletcher and Wayne Rooney.
It is expected that Facebook pages of the individual team members will now follow suit.
The move comes as clubs attempt to exert a tighter grip on their own communications and stop players potentially revealing sensitive information, or expressing opinions that conflict with the wider interests of their teams.
The dangers of this were initially highlighted last summer when Darren Bent attacked Tottenham, via his Twitter account, criticising them for the delays in his move to fellow Premiership outfit Sunderland.
At the time of writing Paddy Power had announced odds on the next club to ban its players from using Twitter. The front runners were:
4/1 – Tottenham Hotspur
6/1 – Liverpool
8/1 – Hull
8/1 – Stoke
10/1 – Bolton
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