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Twitter Hands Over Troll Info to NYPD

A Manhattan Judge slapped a subpoena on Twitter for information about a troll threatening an Aurora-style shooting in New York.

Reason Staff | 8.8.2012 11:22 AM

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Twitter has given cops details of a tweeter who threatened to go on a shooting rampage at a performance of ex-boxer Mike Tyson's one-man show.

A US court compelled the social network to hand over records it holds on the user a full three days after an initial request from New York police was ignored by the website's team.

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