NYC condo board president suing Twitter for libel

Similar to the Chicago woman sued by her landlord for her tweet, a Manhattan condo board president and the building’s management company are suing Twitter, Ning, GoDaddy and WordPress for allegedly defamatory remarks made by users of those Web services. The lawsuit seeks $22 million in damages. It all started after the the condo’s resident manager committed suicide last month. “Afterwards, some Web users allegedly made inflammatory posts on blogs and Twitter,” Wendy Davis reported for M…

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