There isn't much new in the case involving Chicagoan Amanda Bonnen who used her Twitter account to tell 20 followers that there was mold in her apartment owned by Horizon Group Management. She tweeted this in May, and on July 27, Horizon filed a $50,000 defamation lawsuit against her. I haven't found anything else on multiple sites about the case.
The issue is if tweeting is considered publishing or is it just a conversation between friends in a public forum. Those 140 characters could cost Amanda Bonnen $50,000. Tweeting is publishing, to me, but the company has made a PR blunder in pursing it.
Carolyn Olson
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I just saw an article updating us on the mold libel suit. The lawsuit was dismissed. "The judge felt the tweet was too vague to meet the standards of libel." This is an added part to our class notes on the basic elements required to prove libel. Apparently the courts felt that the required degree of fault was nog strong enough to prove libel. The full article can be found at:
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/01/twitter-mold-libel-defamation-suit-dismissal-cook-county-court.html
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