Men arrested for using twitter to help protesters

Twitter messages to help protesters lands pair in Jail

[bwnbwn]

[cnn.com...]
Intresting read as their homes were as well raided from this. I wonder how they located them during the summit unless twitter helped by sending IP's being used.

[arieng]

Well that's just ridiculous! Getting arrested for tweeting information that is available on the Internet? Hmm.

I'm very interested in learning Twitter's role in locating the perpetrators. If they gave that information freely without a court order, I'd be both surprised and disappointed.

[bwnbwn]

Had to have come from Twitter can you imagine all the other people using twitter and they crash in on these guys in a motel room away from the action.

[bill]

If you list a website in your Twitter account it could be trivial to track you down via the domain registration. It would be even easier if those people had enabled Twitter's Location-Aware API [webmasterworld.com]. There are certainly ways to determine a person's location via Twitter using information that has been volunteered over time.