1/20/2012

New-Job Divorce

"A lawsuit in the Bay Area raises that question and proposes to put a value on a Twitter follower. Wireless-news site PhoneDog Media is suing journalist Noah Kravitz for $340,000--that's $2.50 per Twitter follower times 17,000 followers times eight months -- for renaming the company-branded @Phonedog_Noah account he had set up to the more personal @NoahKravitz after his departure from the firm and then continuing to use it for his own purposes."

The above case has been there since a few months. The issue is that a person serving a particular company definitely generates Twitter followers for it. Since he is not paid for this in his retirement plan and since there is no official contract as to whom really the account belongs to, one can always use it for a personal business later in his life.

Read more about this in Discovery News

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