This came to my interest when browsing the BBC news website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16338040
Noah Kravitz is being sued by his employees for taking a large number of his corporate Twitter followers with him when he left the company. The USA has, arguably, always been the haven of the litigators like no other nation, yet this sets an interesting precedent for 'ownership' on the Internet. Who is the 'owner' of a Twitter account when it is set up for corporate purposes? Furthermore, to what extent can a company possibly hope to 'own' clients on a website like Twitter, where the flow of information and the forging of connections is almost instantaneous. It has often been suggested that we now live in a hyper-capitalist age: it will be interesting to see what develops when Twitter creates an environment wherein the free flow of information moves far faster than the free flow of capital.
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