The social media smackdown happened at the Down House restaurant in the Heights, located at 1801 Yale Street.  POSTED: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 
 
 It may be the first-ever case of its kind: A diner was kicked out of a restaurant not for something she did, but apparently for something she said online. The Down House owner Chris Cusack said the customer called the bartender a "twerp" on Twitter, and the manager showed her the door. "I immediately called up here and talked to her for a few minutes and asked her if she had any kinder words." She didn't, DeSpain said, so he asked her to leave. Matsu responded by posting a series of Tweets, most of them in the same vein: "Left @DownHouseHTX in tears after GM called up & asked the bartender to hand me the phone. He proceeded to curse at me and ask me to leave." "There may be people who never hear about this restaurant or know about this restaurant," she said.
– Watch what you tweet: A diner was kicked out of a Houston restaurant for calling the bartender a “twerp” on her Twitter feed, the establishment’s owner tells KPRC Houston. When a manager with the night off saw the comment, he called the restaurant and asked the woman to leave. “Any business is allowed to set the tone of their establishment,” says the owner. “If you go to someone's house and start calling them names, I wouldn't really expect to stay too much longer after that." For her part, Allison Matsu tweeted: “Left Down House in tears after the GM called up and asked the bartender to hand me the phone. He proceeded to curse at me and ask me to leave.” Now, Twitter is all a-twitter about the incident. “I think Down House owes Allison Hiromi a big apology. Welcome to a PR nightmare,” noted one user. But a PR expert says the discussion will put the restaurant on the map. See HoustonPress for more.