Holidaymakers have been warned to watch their difference after two friends were refused access to the US on safety drift after a tweet.
Before his trip, Leigh Van Bryan wrote that he was going to "destroy America".
He insisted he was referring to simply having a great time - but was sent home.
Trade society Abta told the BBC that the box highlighted that holidaymakers should never do anything to elevate "concern or guess in any way".
The US Department for Homeland Security picked up Mr Bryan's messages forward of his legal holiday in Los Angeles.
The 26-year-old club executive wrote a summary to a buddy on the micro-blogging service, saying: "Free this week, for rapid gossip/prep before we go and wipe out America."
The Irish national told the Sun journal that he and his buddy Emily Bunting were apprehended on attainment at Los Angeles International Airport before being sent home.
"The Homeland Security agents were treating me similar to a few type of terrorist," Mr Bryan said.
"I kept adage they had got the incorrect meaning from my tweet."
Abta, that represents go companies in the UK, mentioned holidaymakers must be pick up to be ultra-cautious when it comes to discussing about stirring trips, quite after 9/11.
"Posting statements in a open forum that could be construed as melancholy - in this box adage they are going to "destroy" someplace - will not be noticed sympathetically by US authorities," it told the BBC.
"In the past we have seen holidaymakers stopped at airfield safety for 'joking' that they have a explosve in their bag, fully questioned and finale up omitted their flights, demonstrating that airfield safety staff do not have a clarity of humour when it comes to promising risk."
In other tweet, Mr Bryan done anxiety to slapstick uncover Family Guy adage that he would be in LA in 3 weeks, irksome people "and diggin' Marilyn Monroe up".
Mr Bryan told the journal that he was questioned for 5 hours about his Twitter messages.
After the interview, Homeland Security reported: "Mr Bryan fixed that he had posted on his Tweeter website account that he was coming to the United States to puncture up the grave of Marilyn Monroe.
"Also on his tweeter account Mr Bryan posted he was coming to wipe out America."
The US Customs and Border Protection group mentioned in a matter that it attempted to sustain a change between "securing the borders whilst facilitating the high volume of bona fide traffic and go that crosses the borders every day".
It added: "We essay to accomplish that change and uncover the world that the United States is a welcoming nation."
Mr Bryan is not the usually person to experience a misjudged tweet. In January 2010, Paul Chambers tweeted that he would blow snow-affected Robin Hood Airport in Doncaster "sky high!" if it was not reopened in time for him to see his girlfriend.
He was fined 385 in addition to 2,600 in expenses - a total that actress Stephen Fry offering to pay on Mr Chambers' behalf.
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