First Twitter Libel Damages, By the Pound

While the two American lawsuits that each could have been the first known defamation suit stemming from a Twitter posting both settled (for details, click here and here), the settlement of a British case has now led to the first damage award in that county in a Twitter defamation case: £3,000 in damages (~ $4,840), plus £50,000 (~ $80,730) in court costs.