By Gillian Shaw, Vancouver Sun
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but tweets could break your bank account.
It’s a lesson being strongly felt south of the border, where incautious outbursts on the micro-blogging service Twitter are landing their authors in court. It’s amazing the trouble 140 characters can get you into.
Rocker Courtney Love made headlines over her Twitter spat-turned-lawsuit when she called one fashion designer a liar and a thief. Love has since closed her Twitter account, as did her daughter Frances Bean Cobain, who shut down after tweeting some sharp words for Lindsay Lohan’s sister, Ali Lohan.
Gossip blogger Perez Hilton is embroiled in social media spats with several celebrities, including Demi Moore, who is threatening legal action and has tweeted her anger over Hilton’s publication of provocative photos of her teenage daughter.
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