Twitter account lands employee in court

Noah Kravitz, who used to work with PhoneDog Media has been taken to court by hisu00a0former employers. The reason being the twitter account, which Kravitz used to operate on the behalf of PhoneDog,u00a0hasn''t been returned to the company. He resigned from the company in October 2010 after working for four yearsu00a0there.u00a0

The Twitter account had some 17 thousand followers at the time Kravitz quit and since then it has reachedu00a022 thousand, The Telegraph reports. The suit which was filed in July against Kravitz, but attracted media attentionu00a0following an article about it in the New York Times said, while working for PhoneDog, Kravitz attracted 17,000u00a0followers to his Twitter account@PhoneDog-Noah.u00a0

The suit also mentioned that Kravitz all of a sudden resignedu00a0in October 2010 and when PhoneDog requested him to surrender the Twitter account to which he refused andu00a0merely changed the Twitter username to @noahkravitz. The suit also said that Kravitz has now joined a rivalu00a0company TechnoBuffalo and is using the account against his former employers. Kravitz told the New York Timesu00a0that he had left PhoneDog on good terms with an agreement that he would ''tweet on their behalf from time tou00a0time''.u00a0

He also claimed that this was an act of vengeance from his former company since he had made a claim ofu00a015 per cent of PhoneDog''s gross advertising revenue.

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