3.30.2009

Libel in just 140 characters


In the category of "of course she is," Courtney Love has successfully powered her personal brand into a new technological age by becoming the first person ever to find herself on the business end of a Twitter-related libel suit. You can't make this stuff up, people.



Apparently, the widow Cobain has been Twittering away about her former fashion designer, Dawn Simorangkir, who claims that the former Hole frontwoman has publicly accused her -- succinctly, in messages of under 140 characters each! -- of being a "nasty, lying, hosebag thief," dealing cocaine, losing custody of her child, and being guilty of assault and burglary....

[From Courtney Love, trailblazer - Broadsheet - Salon.com]

-Noted by Paul Knue



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