Internet company PhoneDog is suing a former employee for his Twitter followers. Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur, Jayar Jackson and Jesus Godoy discuss and mention their own Twitter battle (Cenk just joined Twitter). http://twitter.com/theyoungturks http://twitter.com/cenkuygur http://twitter.com/tyt... More
Added Jan 1, 2012
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beats2die4 Says:
get over 50,000 followers on Twitter at thesocialblitzer(.)net
suemiller1000 Says:
I`m sorry but I don`t know whether this is real or not-due to cultural differences I am so dazzled by veneers that my retina ,my retina...my retina..cough cough....splutter,splutter..splutter....lost the will to live...if living be nothing but amusement an amusement can only be seen in my eyes it is behind me.
vXKidFlashXv Says:
Followw 4 Followw on Twitterr :) ! xKidFlashx , Andd iff you $ubscribee Me I'll SUBBSCRlB3 you with 2 or 3 profilezz!
sajonthrowpiks Says:
now corporations want the right to own people? they already have more rights than regular citizens, so why not?
SummerInTahoe Says:
Twitter followers belong to Twitter, Inc. After all.. they can easily just suspend the account and be done with it.
hardcoremarinecor100 Says:
@ItJusGot_Real . . .
Ryoka242 Says:
People do Not Equal Property. this is not the 1800s Having Slaves Is Illegal.
TheCreeperhunter Says:
Never did like Twitter....
HorrorNetwork Says:
twitter is for fags
belltolls1984 Says:
What is this world coming too? I mean really??!!
KICKNITentertainment Says:
Fuck Twitter, I've never even been on that website. No interest.
sitiwrattz Says:
i was working on new years eve and I thought that jayar had come into the place and i about hugged him until i figure out it wasnt him
DeathtoRaiden1 Says:
For fucks sake... I'd take Blade Runner's "future" over this social networking bullshit any day.
chrlpolk Says:
If we exanded the theory - would one be able to claim half the Twitter followers as marital property? Afterall, some of those people are only on my ex-wife's contact list because of our association! The fact is, we do not "own" our accounts. Not on Twitter, not on Facebook, not on Youtube. Each of the companies own all of the subscription contracts that we individually make when we sign up to use the service, None of it belongs to us.
chrlpolk Says:
The subscribers are people; they aren't owned. What we are referring to is the subscription contract. Twitter subscribers are subscribed to the Twitter service. Who they follow on Twitter is regulated by Twitter's policy; not other companies who also use Twitter. Unless the company hired him to create the page, his contract is only with Twitter. If people join because of his associations, and he changes his associations, it is up to those individuals to stay or leave.
lestliness Says:
Look at it from this perspective.. say you write a magazine for a company and this magazine has subscribers.. Do you get to quite and continue the magazine under another name? No, those subscribers belong to the company.
ViolentRiC Says:
@Clanki Wait, you're asking me to elaborate while suggesting you don't care? Well that's different. I could tell you what Godwin's law is, but there' a perfectly good internet out there. I wouldn't worry about it.
chrlpolk Says:
They completely dodge the obvious: The Twitter followers can unfollow him at any time. Twitter followers are not a commodity, there are real people involved.
WoodCroftwoodcroft Says:
Are Hugh Laurie's fans property of the producers of House?
lex811117 Says:
IDK research and other work products (even intangibles) are considered property of the company. With the new medias I think it will be hard to make this case if they did not spell it out in the beginning. I think this leads to companies specifying that any twittering done even remotely related to work is considered work product and is their property, but not them winning the lawsuit.
freedomwv Says:
This is about greed and hardcore capitalism. The internet is all about money for some people.
Clanki Says:
Come on it just sounds so stupid "we own the twitter followers" And no I don't know "Godwin's law" Nor do I know what RiC's law is nor what it stands for. And what name are you not budging on and why should I care?
AndrewMacedonia Says:
fuck thats like slavery twitter does not own any one
hockeyguy1998 Says:
Noah is awesome I can't believe they are suing him:(
religiousabuse Says:
this has the potential to be really bad president