Who owns a Twitter account — the person who used it or the company for which he worked at the time? That question has yet to be resolved, but a federal magistrate judge has allowed several claims by PhoneDog LLC against a former independent contractor over a Twitter account to move forward.
On Jan. 30, Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria-Elena James of the Northern District of California Chief denied Noah Kravitz’s motion to dismiss two of PhoneDog’s amended claims against him stemming from his continued use of a Twitter account he tweeted from while working for PhoneDog.
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