Twitter defamation lawsuit

clipped from consumerist.com Tenant Sued After Using Twitter To Complain About Moldy Apartment If the the puiblic didn't read Amanda Bonnen's Twitter feed before, they will now, thanks to a defamation lawsuit brought against her by Horizon Group Management in Chicago. Bonnen, a tenant, posted an update that said, "Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it's okay." Now she's being sued. The management company says it has been greatly injured in its reputation as a landlord in Chicago because of the Tweet, and seeks an excess of $50,000 in damages. You can read the complaint here. Update: Horizon responds. Uptown Resident Sued For Twitter Post [CBS 2 Chicago] (Photo:TarikB) Amanda Bonnen has closed her Twitter account and the post is gone, which probably is all Horizon wanted, but now that the suit is public, the post will continue to live Or she already settled with them apparently has only 15 followers doubt her tweet was capable of degrading "its reputation as a landlord in Chicago

Public/private communication - post is search-able, but she only had 15 followers.

Notable Tweets on Microsoft Yahoo

Search engine showdown.

clipped from www.searchenginejournal.com A few hours after the first news coverage on the upcoming announcement about the Yahoo-Microsoft search deal, it started to generate substantial buzz on Twitter. If you search “Microsoft Yahoo” on Twitter Search, you’ll get tremendous number of Tweets, with updates coming in every second. Some of the notable Tweets related to the Yahoo-Microsoft Deal:

Twitter to be the new Google?

clipped from www.searchenginejournal.com it stares at you upfront - the Twitter Search Box. As Loren commented to me via IM - “looks like a search engine to me…“ The redesign was made more for first time visitors to the Twitter home page and who are not yet using Twitter. Putting the Twitter search box right up front would give these visitors a first taste of how great Twitter is as a discovery engine and not just a social media tool for communicating with Twitter members. It’s a good strategy for Twitter which defines what it could do aside from being a micro-blogging service. And this could also be the start of biggger, bolder things to come for Twitter.

"it stares at you upfront - the Twitter Search Box."

The staring twitter search box. Such fear and dread lurks behind this simple description.