Twitter Hacking?

A Twitter Blogger is on hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in economic damages after allegedly hijacking his former employer’s Twitter followers.
 A South Carolina Lawsuit a mobile phone review site raises a novel legal issues asking a simple Question, Who owns an account twitter followers  the employee or employer, For the moment looks like the employer does.
PhoneDog sued a fortmer blogger  Noah Kravitz stole the company's more then 17,000 followers to a new job at TechnoBuffalo, the Lawsuit accuses Kravitz of changing his user name from @PhoneDog_Noah to @noahkravitz
the lawsuit claims Kravitz is on the hook for $340,000 Computed by PhoneDog as $2.50 A follower per month in past 8months. PhoneDog provided Kravitz with the Original Twitter Username @PhoneDog_(Name)

“As a direct and proximate result of defendant’s wrongful acts, PhoneDog has suffered damage to its business by way of lost advertising revenue,” according to PhoneDog’s suit (.pdf) against Kravitz in San Francisco federal court.
The suit adds that, because of Kravitz’s alleged misconduct, “there is decreased traffic to [the] website through the account, which in turn decreases the number of website pageviews and discourages advertisers from paying for ad inventory on PhoneDog’s website.”
San Francisco U.S. Magistrate Maria-Elena James ruled (.pdf) last week that PhoneDog’s lawsuit could go forward, deciding that the alleged harm “between PhoneDog and its current and prospective advertisers” is enough for the lawsuit to proceed.
Kravitz’s attorney did not immediately respond for comment, but told The Associated Press that “PhoneDog will be unable to prove its allegations against Mr. Kravitz.”
Tom Klein, PhoneDog’s president, isn’t convinced.
In a blog post, he wrote: “It takes both sides to compromise in order to settle their differences, and while I can’t speak for Noah, I can assure you that we are looking to find a fair and reasonab