There's a legal case going on in Chicago right now (background and discussion here) in which a tenant who tweeted about her moldy apartment is being sued for defamation by the management company.
Now, the full story is a bit more complex -- it really wasn't just an idle, isolated tweet that they somehow found, and she had initiated the whole lawsuit thing in the first place (see here).
What I find interesting about it is that the management company filed their suit, bringing great attention to the accusation (I've seen this story covered on CNN, by the way). If anything, it seems to me that they've done way more damage to themselves here. And the woman in question only had 20 folks subscribed and was replying to someone else, not originating a tweet for the sole purpose of defaming the management company. Thoughts?
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Maybe Obama should have them all over to the White House for a beer to talk about it hehe.
ReplyDeleteAll kidding aside...Twitter is public information. We know now from reading various articles that even if you delete a tweet, it's still out there. You have to be careful what you say, especially if you are in ligitation with someone.
Web 2.0 - youre doin it wrong.
ReplyDeleteThe mgt company is crazy, they could have tried to work with her to resolve, and gotten much better twitter coverage. That's what happened to us when we came to FLA on vacation (and now I have vacation markerters linking to my blog...)