Historians will certainly be dying for access to information like this for people they want to profile, especially in these digital times when written letters are scarce.

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What this does show is that Twitter followers have enough value to send people to federal court, and that any company, no matter how large or small, may need to be sure it has a written policy regarding ownership rights in social media properties, especially when working with freelancers.

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