Twitter's Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be the Industry Standard

January 11 2011, 10:39am

ANALYSIS — Twitter introduced a new feature last month without telling anyone about it, and the rest of the tech world should take note and come up with their own version of it. Twitter beta-tested a spine. When it got a court order demanding that Twitter turn over information about a number of people connected to WikiLeaks, the company fought a gag order and then told the targets that their data was being requested.