Man Sued for Retaining Former Employer's Twitter Follower List

[Rob Williams]

With the advent of social services like Facebook and Twitter, the idea of what's "owned" by either the service or the person has been often debated. When your former employer is behind the questioning, however, things can get really murky, really fast. Case in point: the experience of Noah Kravitz, former employee of Phonedog, a website focusing on mobile technology.

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[eunoia]

I more than empathize with the employer here, except for allowing any grey area to creep in here. One could easily assume that a twitterer posting under a company's name was doing so on company time.

It's a good lesson for employers in these heady days of internet social marketing: make it explicit who's who and who owns what, and even check out what they're doing in your name from time to time.