At any conference, product launch or other eventuality where a tip tier of tech reporters gather, Noah Kravitz is easy to collect out of a crowd. He's a agreeable man with glasses, earring and a cue-ball head; a supersmart cellphone-loving thirtysomething with a finely tuned clarity of a absurd.
Online, Kravitz mostly goes by a hoop "Kravy Krav," an loyalty to hip-hop fable Flavor Flav. KravyKrav was also a name of his really initial (and now inactive) Twitter account. And if that had been a usually Twitter name Kravitz ever went by, he wouldn't have done news this week.
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But his successive Twitter criticism was @Phonedog_Noah, and that has led to an . The reviews website claims Kravitz's Twitter account, now renamed simply @NoahKravitz, is a homogeneous of a corporate patron list that a author upped and left with. The site wants $2.50 for any of Kravitz's 17,000 Twitter supporters over an eight-month period, that adds adult to $340,000.
"I would do it differently now," Kravitz told Mashable this week, "but during a time, job a criticism Phonedog Noah done all a clarity in a world. That's where all my online efforts were going, and we was all about 'let's make this thing as vast as we can.'"
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"Not to blow my possess horn, though we was Phonedog Noah for many years," he added. "People would commend me [from a renouned YouTube videos that Kravitz filmed for a site] and call me Phonedog."
At a time a criticism was established, Kravitz was a site's usually editorial person, if not an tangible staffer -- a freelance editor-in-chief, as he puts it. "We weren't versed to have process on this stuff," Kravitz says. "It was all code new. The lines were blurred."
Phonedog could not be reached for comment. But in to a website WebProNews, a site claimed that it had a gentle media process in place from a start. "When formulating a account, PhoneDog government available and destined Noah to settle a criticism regulating a PhoneDog_Noah fixing convention," it said.
When he and Phonedog split ways in Oct 2010, it was on gentle terms, Kravitz says. He contacted Twitter to change a name on his account. A manikin criticism was set adult underneath a name , so that no one else could squeeze it. And Kravitz concluded to twitter spasmodic on Phonedog's behalf. (He now works as editor-at-large for a website , that usually posted a of his position.)
Indeed, emails performed by Mashable uncover Phonedog staffers seeking Kravitz to send out tweets about promotions prolonged after his departure, and Kravitz similar to do so.
Things usually soured after Kravitz filed fit for behind compensate he says he was owed, and a commission of Phonedog's ad income he was allegedly promised. Phonedog indeed filed a countersuit over a Twitter supporters behind in July; it's creation waves this week after a New York Times beheld it and on Christmas Day.
The suit, if it goes to trial, could settle a series of precedents in a online world. "This seems to be a initial box of someone legally perplexing to put a gratefulness on a follower," records Kravitz. And that valuation, $2.50, is significantly aloft than we competence design -- given that we can for reduction than a penny each.
Still, Phonedog's try to put a value on Twitter supporters could good backfire. No one quite cares to hear that they're value $2.50, even if that is good above a going rate. The site's is already stuffing adult with comments to that effect. "I usually unfollowed we guys on Twitter," writes one commenter. "You can put my $2.50 directly in my PayPal account."
Meantime, Kravitz is in good spirits. He's settling in for a prolonged authorised battle, though holding time to suffer a stupidity of his conditions -- generally a fact that his mostly pointless personal tweets, that dominated his feed before and after a organisation with Phonedog, are now being analyzed by a universe during large.
"I like a caprice of it," he says. "All this tumult over a man who , and posts cinema of himself in front of unicorn paintings."
This story creatively published on Mashable .
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