Gbulmash sends in a classic Streisand Effect story of a Chicago landlord suing a tenant over a tweet querulous of mold in her apartment. The landlord claims that the tweet caused $50,000 damage to their reputation. If it didn't, then the fallout from their own ill-advised lawsuit surely will. The woman's Twitter account is now gone (possibly on advice of counsel), but the tweet that started it all lives on. And in a similar vein, reader levicivita notes a firing over a pressure group comment on a Facebook page. "Lee Landor, who had been the deputy press word processor to Manhattan Borough officials Scott M. Stringer since May, posted remark on her Facebook page criticizing Mr. Gates [Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.] and the president, whom she referred to at one point as 'O-dumb-a.' ... The borough bureau has accepted Ms. Landor's resignation, productive immediately."

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