{"id":1055,"date":"2009-07-28T16:06:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T20:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legalbytes.ignite.lexblog.com\/2009\/07\/landlord-cant-let-tweet-smolder\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T20:32:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T20:32:44","slug":"landlord-cant-let-tweet-smolder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalbytes.com\/2009\/07\/28\/landlord-cant-let-tweet-smolder\/","title":{"rendered":"Landlord Can’t Let Tweet sMOLDer"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have been wondering what happened to the third grade line “there’s a fungus among us,” we have the answer. It seems a “tweet” made available May 12, 2009 on Twitter<\/a> contained the following statement: ". . . Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it’s OK." Since the tweet is alleged to be available publicly for the world to see on Twitter, that didn’t seem particularly humorous to the management of the apartment building in which the Tweeter lives.<\/p>\n

So non-humorous in fact, that Horizon Group Management, landlord of the apartment building in question, has filed suit in a Cook County Illinois Court for libel, alleging this was a "malicious and defamatory" tweet about the state of her apartment. The complaint further contends that because the "statement damaged the plaintiff’s reputation in its business, the statement is libel per se." Horizon is seeking a minimum of $50,000 in damages and that isn’t birdseed. You can read a copy of the complaint<\/a> right here.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have been wondering what happened to the third grade line “there’s a fungus among us,” we have the answer. It seems a “tweet” made available May 12, 2009 on Twitter contained the following statement: “. . . Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it’s OK.” Since the tweet is alleged to be available publicly for the world to see on Twitter, that didn’t seem particularly humorous to the management of the apartment building in which the Tweeter lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48,1],"tags":[161,320,359,447,479],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLandlord Can't Let Tweet sMOLDer - Legal Bytes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/legalbytes.com\/2009\/07\/28\/landlord-cant-let-tweet-smolder\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Landlord Can't Let Tweet sMOLDer - Legal Bytes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you have been wondering what happened to the third grade line "there's a fungus among us," we have the answer. 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