Lawsuit May Clarify Who Owns Twitter Followers

If a social media marketer leaves his job and changes his Twitter handle, who gets to keep the followers?

This has been asked before but now what we’re fairly sure is the first lawsuit related to the matter has been filed.

The NYT reports that Oakland writer Noah Kravitz quit his job at Phonedog.com and took his Twitter account with him (with, he says, the company’s blessing). With Phonedog’s permission, he changed his screenname from Phonedog_noah to NoahKravitz but kept the 17,000 followers he’d gained.

Then here’s what happened:

When he left, he said, PhoneDog told him he could keep his Twitter account in exchange for posting occasionally.

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