But in a time where the misjudgments of one staffer can be broadcast to hundreds of thousands of followers in the span of one ill-fated tweet, certain organizations may want to keep a tighter reign on just who is able to access the company Twitter account, and what exactly is kosher to tweet.
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Another factor propelling Sprint into the arms of a suitor is the seemingly inevitable dissolution of Global One, the firm's ill-fated alliance with France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom that was supposed to offer a one-stop communications shop for big corporate customers.
The loss in 2000 resulted from a one-time charge for abandoning an ill-fated plan to sell organic foods online.
While smartphones killed the need to own camcorders like the ill-fated Flip Camera, they may also have the capacity to one day become the device that takes out GoPro.
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In a Facebook blog post today, the company has gone to great lengths to bury the lede -- which, essentially, says that it's experimenting with the idea of letting non-connected users pay in order to have a message routed to one's inbox instead of that ill-fated "Other" folder.
That, naturally, leaves one important question: where is Beagle 2, the ill-fated British lander?
Why did Microsoft agree to a one-year extension of the revenue guarantees it provides Yahoo under their ill-fated search agreement?
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One example: Chrysler's disastrous buildup of inventory last year in an ill-fated campaign to meet sales expectations back in Germany.
But her rise from obscurity, through a number of unremarkable TV jobs - including Channel 4's ill-fated The Girlie Show and a UK Play gameshow, Flatmates, which she still hosts - to one of the most coveted roles in British radio demonstrates her determination to succeed.
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