Microblogging is not without issues, such as privacy, security, and integration.[22]

Privacy is arguably a major issue because users may broadcast sensitive personal information to anyone who views their public feed. Microblog platform providers can also cause privacy issues through altering or presetting users' privacy options in a way users feel compromises their personal information. An example would be Google’s Buzz platform which incited controversy in 2010 by automatically publicizing users’ email contacts as ‘followers’.[28] Google later amended these settings.

On centralized services, where all of the Microblog's information flows through one point (e.g. servers operated by Twitter), privacy has been a concern in that user information has sometimes been exposed to governments and courts without the prior consent of the user who generated such supposedly private information, usually through subpoenas or court orders. Examples can be found in recent Wikileaks related Twitter subpoenas,[29][30][31][32] as well as various other cases.[33][34][35][36]

Security concerns have been voiced within the business world, since there is potential for sensitive work information to be publicized on microblogging sites such as Twitter.[37][38] This includes information which may be subject to a superinjunction.[39]

Integration could be the hardest issue to overcome, since it can be argued that corporate culture must change to accommodate microblogging.[citation needed]