Twitter rants costing singer $430,000

Courtney Love's 140-character Twitter rants against a fashion designer are costing her US$430,000 (€308,007), a lawyer said today.

The singer has settled a lawsuit filed by Dawn Simorangkir in Los Angeles, who sued the Hole frontwoman in March 2009 accusing her of making false statements about the designer and her past in a series of postings on the microblogging site Twitter and Love's Myspace blog.