Twitter has warned the owners of an account spoofing a journal senior manager that they are to exhibit his identity to the company.
Northcliffe Media, that is owned by the Daily Mail Group, released a summons to the amicable network by a Californian court.
The account, @UnSteveDorkland , is a "parody" of Northcliffe's arch senior manager Steve Auckland.
The firm mentioned the tweets were "obsessive and offensive".
"I can declare you have taken action to inquire Twitter for help in identifying the particular to be able to safeguard the staff from harassment," Mr Auckland mentioned in a statement.
"We done no solicit for, nor had any submit in, a preference to end tweeting. Our initial priority is a task of caring to all of the employees."
However, vocalization anonymously to the BBC, the account's owners doubtful the claims of harassment.
"People can make their own judgement," he said.
"I've not taken anything down. It's all in the open domain, I've not overwhelmed them at all."
The order means Twitter contingency give up all identifying data it has on the account holder.
In an email seen by the BBC, the amicable network suggested the account hilt that he could look for the help of the promotion organisation the Electronic Frontier Foundation or the American Civil Liberties Union.
The summons was initial published on the Guido Fawkes blog progressing this week.
In a follow-up post on Wednesday, the blog done open an email sent by Twitter in that it warned the account hilt that "Twitter is thankful to reply to official routine and will do so on Aug 1, 2012, absent the filing of a suit to quash".
The account hilt told the BBC that he did not have the means to sinecure a counsel in the US, and so thus is not now formulation to free-for-all the order.
"What I need at the notation is a really great pro-bono California lawyer," he said.
"As it stands, they'll palm over my details."
He discharged claims that he was being fed data by employees at the company.
"Not a twitter is fed by anything other than my aptitude and expertise of the company," he told the BBC.
"I got fortunate on a couple of guesses. I am rash by them, I am unmonitorable by them."
However, he updated that given investigations had been receiving place at the firm sources had been gripping him present on its progress.
The account, that was originally called @Northcliffestev, frequently criticised decisions done by the actual Mr Auckland in his purpose at Northcliffe.
However, a source at the journal organisation insisted that this was not the determination at the back the authorised action.
"Steve is a really open guy. The thought that he would silence someone only for being vicious is only not realistic - it was the objectionable inlet of the tweets."
Media counsel David Allen Green, from Preiskel Co, told the BBC that avowal orders such as this should "not be postulated easily by any court".
"It is important that the justice postulated this order for a great and convincing authorised reason and that the justice moreover had apt courtesy to the correct of giveaway expression."
"Parody and pseudonymous Twitter accounts are frequently utilitarian or entertaining. To earn a avowal order can in outcome bring such accounts to an end," he said.
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