You have an honor; a certain honor is attributed to you when you are in a status group.
Anything you say to a reporter is, by default, on the record and can be attributed to you.
No two people believe exactly the same thing, and that presents another opportunity for evasion: plausible denial that you believe what is being attributed to you.
Perhaps there is something worse than being talked about, and that is having words attributed to you that you never wrote.
Even if numerous other people have looked over your resumes, you are ultimately responsible for your resume, and errors will be attributed to you alone.
If you're serious about managing your brand, then, you shouldn't say anything unprofessional that someone in earshot might attribute to you in a tweet (better dial down the irony, while you're at it).
It may mean that the information is publishable, but cannot be attributed to you, or that you can only be described in vague terms, such as 'a government researcher'.
I'm sure we've all had the situation on Twitter where you want to tweet something without it being attributed to you.
You'll also be given control over which comments stay attributed to you — if you find a comment you no longer wish to be associated with, you can delete it from your profile and it will be attributed to an anonymous user on the blog you left it on (I think this could lead to some problems, which I'll get to below).
