Google Streetview/Allison Matsu.

If you love reading mean YouTube comments, you’ll enjoy Houston’s latest Twitter spat. Prolific tweeter Allison Matsu (with 42,361 tweets and counting!) was ejected from the Height’s Down House Sunday for sending an angry tweet, since deleted, about the bartender, calling him a “twerp” and using the hashtag #jackoff after he supposedly insulted Houston restaurateur Bobby Heugel. Down House’s general manager, Forrest DeSpain, called the bar after he saw the tweet and told Matsu to leave, Eating Our Words reported. As with many Internet scandals, everyone emerges from this one looking childish.

While you can expect to be shown the door for shouting at a bartender, would a mean comment whispered to another patron earn you the same treatment? Sam Biddle raised that question on Gizmodo. But Twitter “straddles a bizarre line between private and public,” Biddle writes. And Matsu could have anticipated that an employee of the bar could see her comment while she was still there. “The moral of the story?” Houston Eater asks. “Think before you tweet, and don’t insult the bartenders at Down House on Twitter until you’ve already left the place.”

What’s the fallout? Matsu says she’s banned from both Down House and Heugel’s Anvil Bar. Meanwhile, on Twitter, Matsu is claiming not to want the attention, but also appears ready to capitalize on her five minutes of Internet stardom, and is considering making T-shirts to sell. As for Down House, well, the bar-restaurant-coffeehouse is now trying to make Twitter-scandal lemonade with a contest, offering a $50 gift card to the person who can come up with the “most creative most insulting” tweet about the establishment.

Heugel was not amused with the whole mess. “So a relatively new restaurant had a conflict with a guest – ok? Based on yesterday’s reactions, you would think the Down House bussers pulled out AK-47’s killed everybody in the dining room and slapped a baby in the parking lot on the way out,” he writes on his blog. Of all the media attention, he wrote: “Did someone really just tell me that Channel 2 picked this story up??? Slow day in Somalia I guess…”—Sonia Smith.