Twitter’s 140-character limit requires users to get right to the heart of the matter. The same could be said of Twitter Legal, a still-small department tasked with navigating thorny free speech issues and helping the company with a series of acquisitions and other steps taken in preparation for its hotly anticipated IPO.
Under former GC Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter’s first in-house lawyer, Team Tweagle was known for its defense of free speech principles and refusing to cooperate with governments seeking to censor communications. It was noticeably absent from the list of tech companies alleged by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden to be participating in the government PRISM program. Twitter has pushed the government to let it reveal more about the requests it gets for user data, and what it does with those requests.
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