Who owns your Twitter followers?

If you're employed, what you write is generally your employer's property. But the lines are blurry in the era of social media, Rob Pegoraro reports on DiscoveryNews. A site called PhoneDog Media "is suing journalist Noah Kravitz for $340,000 — that's $2.50 per Twitter follower times 17,000 followers times eight months — for renaming the company-branded @Phonedog_Noah account he had set up to the more personal @NoahKravitz after his departure from the firm."

RE: Who owns your Twitter followers?

Would love to hold a workshop on this issue in Seattle in 2012 for our NW chapter. Anyone have a legal media expert to recommend on our left coast, who could travel without stipend?