Twitter is an amazing medium communication to get your messages in form of tweets to reach people/followers. This practice is done on both professional and personal ends to meet particular requirements but the former way of usage might be become a nightmare in some rare cases.
One such case is regarding a person named Noah Kravitz, who left his former employer PhoneDog in October 2010 on good terms but still had to face the music after sometime. Apparently he got sued by his former employer on accounts of him using a Twitter account having 17,000 followers for $340,000 ($2.50 per follower).
Kravtiz told the New York Times that he had permission from PhoneDog to keep the twitter account, as long as he tweeted about the company every now and then. On that Kravtis happily agreed and moved on but eight months later he got sued for using that account.
While working for the company, he used the Twitter account under the name Phonedog_Noah and after leaving the company he started to use the account under his name NoahKravitz on which Phonedog sued their former employee claiming that the list of the followers were all customers which it deemed it to be confidential.
PhoneDog :-
The costs and resources invested by PhoneDog Media into growing its followers, fans and general brand awareness through social media are substantial and are considered property of PhoneDog Media L.L.C. We intend to aggressively protect our customer lists and confidential information, intellectual property, trademark and brands.
This all seems very confusing, where you first allow the person to use the account and then you sue the person for it.
Kravtiz :-
They’re suing me for over a quarter of a million dollars. From where I’m sitting I held up my end of the bargain.
