Twitter hands over Occupy protester’s tweets to NY judge

Twitter has delivered prosecutors in New York with a record of tweets sent by one of its users arrested last year during an Occupy Wall Street protest after being threatened in court with hefty fines if they didn’t comply.

Friday morning, Harris’ attorney spoke to the media and voiced his discontent with the ruling.

‘‘We are disappointed that Twitter is essentially giving up the fight,’’ lawyer Martin Stolar told the Associated Press.

Weeks earlier, Twitter attorney Benjamin Lee tweeted, “Twitter users own their Tweets. They have a right to fight invalid government requests, and we continue to stand with them in that fight.”