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Company sues ex-employee for his Twitter followers

3 pointsby truscheover 13 years ago

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FuzzyDunlopover 13 years ago
Sooner or later social network accounts and such like will end up being written into employment contracts. The lawsuit aside, it strikes me as odd that someone would essentially use one account for both business and personal purposes. That the line is so blurred because of this conflict of interests doesn't really help either party.<p>The employee hasn't done himself any favours by not separating concerns, and the business hasn't done itself any favours by not (as far as we know) issuing any usage guidelines or otherwise making clear what can and cannot be done with an account.