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The use of Twitter and other social media by college athletes is care- fully watched by schools.

post, too. The Chicago Tribune talked to sev- eral prominent recruiters in 2013. The inter- view subjects chose not to use their names in the article, but they all agreed that post- ing the wrong things can prevent a student from earning a scholarship. “We just decided this week to stop recruiting a handful of kids we really liked because of different things we saw on Twitter and Instagram,” a recruiter from a Big Ten school told the Tribune .

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