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Basketball players tweet about not tweeting

Coach Roy Williams told players some tweets were offensive

It appears Coach Roy Williams is finally cracking down on the UNC men's basketball team's tweeting.

Around 5:10 p.m., players on the team started tweeting they had just left a meeting with Williams regarding the popular social networking service Twitter.

"Well, coached (sic) just talked to us about twitter and told us we offend some people n what not so this is a farewell to bein' myself," said John Henson in a Tweet.

Throughout the year, UNC Athletic Director Dick Baddour and the Athletic Department have been trying to shape policies that outline how student-athletes should appropriately use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

In April, a panel including UNC senior Marcus Ginyard and Associate Athletic Director Steve Kirschner discussed the potential ramifications of student-athletes using social networking services without regulation.

"They may be Tweeting back to their buddies back home, but every paper is reading those Tweets," Kirschner said during the panel.

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