Twitter is not handing over one user’s tweets without a fight.
On Monday, the San Francisco-based company filed an appeal in the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court arguing that it should not have to comply with an earlier criminal court ruling ordering the company to deliver to the Manhattan District Attorney a selected series of tweets and identifying account information from Malcolm Harris, a writer, prankster and “Occupy Wall Street” protester arrested along with 400 other “Occupy” demonstrators on the Brooklyn Bridge in November 2011.The Manhattan District Attorney’s office originally subpoenaed Twitter in January 2012 for three-months-worth of Harris’s tweets made in late 2011 under the account name “@destructuremal.”
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