Tweeting has become a popular way of letting anyone know what your doing. In the business world it has great advantages, you can let customers know when products are available, run promotions or updates. However, if also has a bad side… try explaining to a customer that you didn’t have time to ship his purchases today because you were too busy. This excuse will not go down well if you were seen to be wasting time Tweeting or updating your Facebook page.
Courtney Love’s Tweet comments about fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir, resulted in the designer filing a defamation suit against Love, and could very well go down as one of the most expensive tweets ever. Love has agreed to pay the fashion designer $430,000. Simorangkir’s legal team evidently wanted a higher sum, but had to settle for almost half a million dollars.