Dan Allen admitted to being 'The Real Insider' after replying to a tweet from the wrong account.
, most recently Ubisoft's big Assassin's Creed presentation, which the account leaked almost in its entirety.But things went sideways earlier this week thanks to a classic social media blunder: In response to a Twitter inquiry aimed at The Real Insider, Allen replied from the wrong account. He quickly deleted the tweet, but of course it was caught and shared.
Many followers responding to his apology said they hope he'll bounce back from this"mistake" and resume his streaming career; others expressed doubt that anyone would be able to come back from this sort of credibility-shredding incident. Both the Dan Allen Gaming and The Real Insider Twitter accounts are now gone, but the Dan Allen Gaming YouTube channel, for now, remains online.
These NDAs are serious enough that I don't sign any of them without passing them through our legal department first to ensure that I'm not going to accidentally bankrupt the company by CCing the wrong person into an email. Allen clearly didn't have those concerns—you don't bother involving lawyers if you're going to just pour your secrets all over the internet anyway—but there's no way he got the info he shared without signing the required paperwork.
Regardless of the sincerity of his apology, by copping to being The Real Insider he's also admitted to violating multiple NDAs, some of which carry heavy penalties. It's possible that Ubisoft's legal team will take it easy on him; it's also possible that social media humiliation will very soon be the least of Allen's worries.Andy Chalk
Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he graduated to the glory days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran a local BBS, learned how to build PCs, and developed a longstanding love of RPGs, immersive sims, and shooters.
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