of horizon sues amanda bonnen $50k for posting a twitter complaint

Will one Chicago woman's Tweet cost her $50,000?: See below for Amanda's complaint. In May Amanda Bonnen twitted a complaint about Horizon on her Twitter account. Horizon Group Mangement filed a lawsuit against Amanda for "maliciously and wrongfully published the false and defamatory Tweet on Twitter, thereby allowing the Tweet to be distributed throughout the world."

In May, the Chicago resident did what many of Twitter's millions of users do--she tweeted a complaint.

Today, Horizon Group Management filed a lawsuit against her, alleging that her statement damaged the company's business reputation.

According to the complaint filed in Cook County court today, Bonnen "maliciously and wrongfully published the false and defamatory Tweet on Twitter, thereby allowing the Tweet to be distributed throughout the world."

Read the lawsuit here (in PDF).