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August 28, 2012 12:09 am GMT

Twitter Appeals Court Decision Against Occupy Wall Street Protester Malcolm Harris

twitter logoTwitter just filed its appeal against a New York court decision requiring the company to turn over tweets and account information for Occupy Wall Street protester Malcolm Harris, who is being prosecuted for allegations of disorderly conduct.According to Twitter's brief, the New York County District Attorney's office subpoenaed Twitter earlier this year for information related to two of Harris' accounts, @destructuremal and @getsworse. The requests came at different times for the two accounts, and cover slightly different information, but in the case of @getsworse, they include all public tweets, as well as "[t]he following subscriber information: name; address; records ofsession times and durations; length of service (including creation date); types ofservice utilized; telephone or instrument number or any other subscriber number oridentity, including any temporarily assigned network address.

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