Twitter has complied with a court order to hand over information on one of its users to the New York Police Department, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. The user had threatened to stage an attack similar to the Aurora shooting during a one-man show featuring Mike Tyson at a Broadway theater.

Twitter received the emergency request from the NYPD just before midnight on last Friday for information on a user who had posted tweets that stated, "I might just shoot up this theater in New York" and "I got 600 people on my hit list and that’s gonna be a mass murder for real." In response to the request, Twitter told the NYPD that it would disclose the requested information immediately if it felt a threat was present; in this particular case, the user and the content posted did not "fall under those strict parameters as per [Twitter's] policies."

Twitter has openly stated that it wants to actively protect users from unwarranted prosecution. In May, the company challenged a subpoena for tweets posted by a user involved with Occupy Wall Street.

The company has not made clear how it was able to determine that the tweeted threats didn't merit emergency action. The release of information now, over four days later, is in response to a subpoena from the Manhattan district attorney, which was served late Monday.