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		<title>Landlord sues former tenant over Tweet on Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Rothman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defamation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright" style="margin: 5px;" title="Twitter suit" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:x-uI06v9GGL9tM:http://media.decider.com/assets/images/articles/article/30991/twittercase-1_jpg_595x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg" alt="" width="135" height="74" />Horizon Group Management, LLC, one of Chicago&#8217;s &#8220;premier apartment leasing and management companies,&#8221; has sued a former tenant, Amanda Bobben, for libel over a tweet she posted on her public twitter feed.</p>
<p>The tweet read:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>You should just</em>&#8230;</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright" style="margin: 5px;" title="Twitter suit" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:x-uI06v9GGL9tM:http://media.decider.com/assets/images/articles/article/30991/twittercase-1_jpg_595x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg" alt="" width="135" height="74" />Horizon Group Management, LLC, one of Chicago&#8217;s &#8220;premier apartment leasing and management companies,&#8221; has sued a former tenant, Amanda Bobben, for libel over a tweet she posted on her public twitter feed.</p>
<p>The tweet read:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>You should just come anyway. </em><em>Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it&#8217;s okay.</em></p>
<p>According to <a href="http://chicago.decider.com/articles/140-ways-to-leave-your-landlord-chicagos-first-twi,30991/" target="_blank">A.V. Chicago</a>, Bonner had 20 followers on Twitter before her account disappeared, and her tweet was an @ reply so theoretically not many people were going to see it.  Apparently, Bonner&#8217;s Twitter account and Facebook pages appear to have since been shut down.</p>
<p>The reasoning behind filing this suit escapes me.  By filing suit claiming that Bonnen &#8220;maliciously and wrongfully published the false and defamatory tweet on Twitter, thereby allowing the tweet to be distributed throughout the world&#8221; Horizon insured that the allegedly false allegations, originally seen by only a few, would be republished again and again long after Bonner&#8217;s tweet vanished into the ether.</p>
<p>To read the complaint, <a href="http://media.suntimes.com/images/cds/pdf/twitterlawsuit.pdf" target="_blank">click here.</a> The suit was filed by <a href="http://hardtstern.com/attorneys/bret_rappaport.html" target="_blank">Chicago attorney Bret Rappaport</a> of <a href="http://hardtstern.com" target="_blank">Hardt, Stern &amp; Kane, P.C.</a></p>
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