Occupy Wall Street Sues Member Who Hijacked Twitter Account

The Occupy Wall Street movement celebrated its third anniversary Sept. 17 by filing a lawsuit against one of its former members, who changed the password to the group’s Twitter account and declared himself its sole “steward.” The Twitter account @OccupyWallStNYC, which has 177,000 followers, was started in 2011 and shared among several members of the movement, who all wrote tweets on the account. In August one member, Justin Wedes, changed the passwords to lock out the other administrators, and wrote in a blog post that contentious relationships in the group spurred his actions. “Each and every day that goes by while Wedes remains in control of the Twitter account is another day of plaintiff’s lost opportunity to speak to the Twitter audience that they worked to cultivate and rightly should control,” the lawsuit states.