A line of police officers block Occupy Wall Street protesters on Brooklyn Bridge in New York on October 11, 2011. Twitter has agreed to hand over three months of tweets for the trial of protester Malcolm Harris. Picture: AP Source: AP
TWITTER has handed over about three months' worth of an Occupy Wall Street protester's tweets to a judge in a criminal trial.
The social networking site had been threatened with steep fines if it did not comply with Judge Matthew Sciarrino Jr.'s order earlier this summer to turn over the records in the case of Malcolm Harris.
The tweets were handed over yesterday.
The Manhattan district attorney's office says Mr Harris' messages could show whether he was aware of the police orders he's charged with disregarding. The case involved a protest at the Brooklyn Bridge last fall.
Twitter had said the case could put it in the position of having to take on legal fights that users could otherwise conduct on their own.
Mr Harris' trial begins in December. He has pleaded not guilty.
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