Are you about to get fired because of your Twitter account? This new app will warn you in advance!

Watching your back: Ricardo Kawase of University of Hannover, Germany, has created a new app to monitor Tweets that could get you into trouble with the boss

It may be tempting to tweet your distress about the terrible job you've just been asked to do at work - but what if the boss is reading your feed?

Now a new 'FireMe' app will monitor your messages and send an alert to warn you the tweet is dangerous.

But the only problem is it will also broadcast

your tweet via its own 'shaming' page.

Every time you tweet about your job, or your boss or colleagues, the app flags it up and sends the person who wrote it a reply asking whether that was really a good idea.

 

Users receive a message which reads something like: 'Can you imagine if your boss gets to know that you said: 'I hate my job so much'. You said that on Twitter and the whole world can see it!'

It also gives users a FireMetre! score, measuring the likelihood of that tweet getting you fired.

Should they really have sent these tweets? Some of the Twitter messages highlighted by the FireMe app

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FireMe! App tracks abusive tweets about work online and posts them to a site and sends you a message when you have overstepped the mark

The app, created by Ricardo Kawase and his team at the University of Hannover, Germany,allows users to view a list of people criticising their jobs, bosses and colleagues in real time.

According to FireMe! it recorded more than 22,000 controversial work tweets during June last year. 

The app also sent out more than 4300 tweets to offenders over the last three weeks and according to Digital Trends, 249 of those tweets were deleted in two hours.

You can also manually check your chances of being fired by entering your username and giving the app permission to scan your account. It ranks your chances of being fired as a percentage.

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