Be careful what you say on the internet — even if you only have 140 characters with which to say it.  Up and coming fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir, also known as Boudoir Queen, recently filed suit against Courtney Love for, inter alia, defamation via Twitter.

While Love is hardly the only celebrity tweeting nowadays, she does have the honor of being the first celebrity sued for tweeting.

The complaint, filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court last Thursday, reads in part:

In addition to posting entries on her MySpace blog, Love has posted comments on Simorangkir’s Etsy feedback page and on www.twitter.com (“Twitter”), a popular online community.

FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION (For Libel, against all defendants)

On or about March 17, 2009, Love went on an extensive rant on Twitter whereby Love made a number of false and defamatory statements about Simorangkir which were published in writing on the Internet, true and correct copies which are attached hereto as Exhibit “1″.  Love claimed that Simorangkir is a felon, stole cash and goods from Love, has a history of dealing cocaine, lost custody of her children, has a history of assault and burglary, and has a record of prostitution.  Among others, Love posted the following false statements on Twitter about or concerning Simorangkir (the “Twitter Postings”):

a. “the felonious Dawn/Boudoir Queen witnessed stealing 2 MASSIVE army bags out of the chat at 4am” . . .

b. “austin police are morethan ecstatic to pick her up she has a history of dealing cocaine, lost all custody of her child, assault and burglary” . . .

c. “stay away well well away, and etsy cant wait tos e [sic] the backof her, so goodbye asswipe nasty lying hosebag thief, now for pleasant things” . . .

d. “gets to haul her 52 year old desperate cokes out ass to jail where they dont have three bottles of vodka a night, to all shes bullied onetsy” . . .

e. “you have my empathy, a perfect community withone extremely rotton apple trust me to pick it, she owes me over 40k and a million in damages” . . .

f. “scorched earth ignore and blacklist, few people ever deserve our toal ignoring butthis thef and burglar does, austin police loathher!orange” . . .

g.  “is my clothes my WARDROBE! oi vey dont fuck with my wardrobe or you willend up in a circle of corched eaeth hunted til your dead,new job>” . . .

h. “as one of her many bullied victims smashes her face soon as shes an assault addict herself ( theres apprently prostitution in her record too” . . .

I. “iler, I told imogen heap if she doesnt mind being whored out by a felon well thats fine, but my girls in citizens band DO mind, so she best” . . .

j. “little bassists. goodbye ‘boudoir queen’ to be replaedby 100s of great indie designers on etsy that are trained that do know whattheyredoin”

Admittedly, I dropped advanced torts on the second day, but I suspect that representing that someone has a history of selling cocaine to ~3000 people could have legal consequences.  Coincidentally, I looked up her twitter account, located here, to verify how many unfortunate souls were following Love’s ramblings.  Generally celebrities have at least 25,000 followers on Twitter, so it turns out that people are much smarter than I had anticipated.  Good job, Twitter.

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