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NYPD to Subpoeana Twitter over Tweeted Theater Threat

Twit threatened attack on midtown theater, Twitter says the message doesn't meet its threshold for voluntary disclosure to law enforcement

Reason Staff | 8.7.2012 8:20 AM


The NYPD plans to subpoena Twitter Tuesday in an effort to force the social networking site to reveal the identity of the user who threatened to execute a "Batman"-style shooting rampage at a Broadway theater, police said.

"This s---t ain't no joke yo -- I'm serious, people are gonna die like aurora," the person Tweeted, referring to the July massacre at a Colorado movie theater where a man in tactical gear opened fire on movie-goers during a showing of "The Dark Knight Rises."

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