Twitter has agreed to hand over a user's account information to the New York Police Department following a court order, reports the New York Times. The NYPD reportedly sent a request for the information to Twitter on Friday, after a user posted threatening tweets about going on a shooting spree at a New York City theater, at times referencing the tragedy that occurred during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado last month. The user's account has since been removed.
Twitter initially refused to provide the information, according to the New York Post, saying that "while we do invoke emergency-disclosure procedures when it appears that a threat is present, specific, and immediate, this does not appear to fall under those...
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