Over $ 50,000 sued for Twitter post

    How much damage can a single Twitter post do? According to Horizon Realty Real Estate Management Agency - at least $ 50,000.

    This is the cost of a lawsuit against one of the former tenants on Monday in response to a message about one of their apartments in Chicago. Amanda Bonnen was located at 4242 N. Sheridan, one of the company's more than 1,500 apartments. According to the Chicago Sun-Times , Amanda's May 12 message read:

    “Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it's okay. ”

    A message sent under the no longer existing @abonnen account was the cause of a lawsuit that began in the Cook County District Court. And although the message itself along with the account has now been deleted, its page has been saved in the Google cache, where you can count exactly 20 “followers”. Perhaps there were more of them when no one suspected that everything could turn out so seriously. Amanda was not a particularly active Twitter user - she sent about 1-5 messages a day, and sometimes did not send at all.

     @abonnen

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