Do Twitter accounts do more harm than good for athletes?

[Yahoo Cop]

Saving for some cases like Shaq where he is funny, has a ton of followers and doesn't tweet trash. There are many other players that with questionable tweets like JR Smith or LeBron get heat.

[Miami Heat]

LeBron's tweets are great. I don't know what you're talking about.

Last year, the Cavs swept the Lakers. Then LeBron left and Dan Gilbert, the Cavs owner, insulted LeBron horribly. Two days ago, the Cavs lost to the Lakers by 55 POINTS.

Karma is indeed a b!tch. LeBron was right.

[i love NY]

Well my opinion is this:

NBA players are human. I love and respect all of LeBron's tweets because he expresses himself as a human being, and not as a superstar. What LeBron said about the Cavs karma was COMPLETELY true, so I only dislike that he denied tweeting it, although I don't know whether or not it was him.

[Ben Linus]

Twitter absolutely does more harm than good for people/athletes who are already famous IMO. For whatever reason, many athletes just don't understand that if you wouldn't say it to a reporter you absolutely don't want to say it on Twitter either.

For every "Shaq" who has enough sense not to use Twitter to rant and talk smack publicly, there are literally hundreds of athletes who apparently can't comprehend that when they post something stupid/irresponsible/insane/critical of another athlete etc., that it's posted for all to see and there's no "oops I didn't mean to post that" button to remove the comments once they're posted.

Pro athletes using Twitter to do anything other than announce where they're going to be for an autograph signing or charity event etc., are just asking for trouble by posting stuff on a public forum.