Tweet, Tweet. Does The Boss Own Your Twitter Account?

Who 'Owns' A Twitter Account: Employer Or Employee? | Techdirt. The burgeoning use of social media; including Twitter and Facebook, gives rise to some interesting questions about ownership of the accounts. Employment lawyers will likely be scrutinizing employment contracts, cases dealing with ownership and control of email, and many other factors in the certain litigation that will arise over this issue. Does the employment contract control? Does ownership of the computer and Internet account used to create the account control? Does the content of the communication control? If you use the employer's name in the account, and use the account, at least partially, to promote the employer's business, can ownership be divided? And, to further complicate the issue, since electronic discovery will likely now include the contents of tweets and facebook postings, as well as email, will ownership and privilege issues cloud the discovery of tweets? Employment lawyers, want to weigh in? Sounds complicated to me; but, I am just a dirt lawyer. I am also a solo practitioner, so I own all my accounts. Which, when the bills come in, is not always a good thing.