Twitter Libel Suit Dismissed "With Prejudice"

By Tom Collins

A while back (I know, I've been neglecting this blog horribly, consumed with our move to CO and our exciting work on the BlogPaws 2010 pet bloggers conference), I wrote yet another post, More on Lawyers vs. Social Media, criticizing lawyers who seem clueless about the costs and consequences of attacking bloggers with traditional litigators' tools. In that post, I described how the lawyers managed to publicize an allegedly libelous tweet (from a Twitter account with ~20 followers) and expose it to millions of people. 

Today, Wendy Davis reported on MediaPost's Daily Online Examiner that Judge Diane Larsen threw the suit out, ruling that the tweet was "nonactionable as a matter of law."