Government can get records from Twitter for WikiLeaks probe, judge rules 11 Mar 2011 A federal judge ruled Friday that the government can obtain records from the online social networking site Twitter in its criminal investigation of WikiLeaks. Three key players in the probe had argued that handing over their Twitter account information violated their constitutional rights. In a 20-page written opinion, U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa Carroll Buchanan in Alexandria ruled that the information is not protected by the First Amendment because the Twitter clients have "already made their Twitter posts and associations publicly available."