On Jan. 1, I found that these Twitter names had hordes of followers: @ladygaga had 17,554,645, @Starbucks had 1,927,255, and @noahkravitz had 24,273. If you have a Twitter account, you can easily see all of who the followers are. Having Twitter followers doesn’t mean you get to keep them, though. Followers can unfollow on their own. Or, an employer might try to claim the followers belong to it. In a lawsuit filed by Kravitz’s former employer PhoneDog, a novel legal question is raised: Who really owns followers on Twitter?
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New Legal Challenge - Who Owns Followers on Twitter?
Posted by: Peter S. Vogel January 11, 2012 10:53 AMOn Jan. 1, I found that these Twitter names had hordes of followers: @ladygaga had 17,554,645, @Starbucks had 1,927,255, and @noahkravitz had 24,273. If you have a Twitter account, you can easily see all of who the followers are. Having Twitter followers doesn’t mean you get to keep them, though. Followers can unfollow on their own. Or, an employer might try to claim the followers belong to it. In a lawsuit filed by Kravitz’s former employer PhoneDog, a novel legal question is raised: Who really owns followers on Twitter?