Twitter has said it will not unmask the person behind a spoof account of a newspaper executive after the anonymous user launched legal action in the US.
The Twitter user behind a parody account of Steve Auckland, the chief executive of Daily Mail & General Trust’s regional newspaper operation, was due to have his personal details handed over to the company on Wednesday.
Northcliffe Media wants to find out who is behind the parody account to stop what it calls obsessive and offensive tweets.
Lawyers acting for the anonymous Twitter user filed legal papers in San Francisco on Tuesday calling for Northcliffe’s subpoena to be quashed.
“The underlying identities of anonymous critics of powerful and public figures have a long and constitutionally-protected history in America,” the lawyers for @UnSteveDorkland argued in a 20-page legal filing seen by MediaGuardian.
read more:http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/01/twitter-refuses-unmask-fake-steve-auckland?newsfeed=true
How unClooney?