Twitter rant costs PayPal exec his job

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A rant on Twitter cost a strategy executive at e-commerce website PayPal his job. PayPal announced that Rakesh Agarwal is no longer with the company, after he made a series of disparaging tweets about his coworkers, including insults to Christina Smedley, PayPal’s vice president for global communications. Agarwal blames the tweets on a new Twitter interface that posted publicly what he intended to be direct messages for a colleague. Paypal’s Twitter account released a brief statement, saying “Rakesh Agrawal is no longer with the company. Treat everyone with respect. No excuses. PayPal has zero tolerance.”

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