Despite The Daily Telegraph and Senator Stephen Conroy crowing about the success of the recent Stop The Trolls campaign, according to responses from Twitter itself, it appears as though that success was overstated.

The Stop The Trolls campaign was criticised for many reasons, one of them being that it didn't understand what a troll actually was. It equated all internet trolls with bullies and anonymous abuse even though trolling can simply mean playing a simple joke upon someone or making a witty quip. Consequently, the campaign was heavily criticised for calling for legislation which would curtail freedom of expression and the right to criticise or satirise.

The newspaper ran a campaign for a fortnight. However, three weeks in, the petition has ground to a halt at just 732 signatures. In the meantime an anti-Alan Jones petition quickly stormed to over 100,000 signatures.

Nonetheless, two weeks in and The Daily Telegraph was claiming a "major victory in the war on net trolls."

Supporter, Conroy said, "In response to community concern as represented by the Stop The Trolls campaign, Twitter will ensure a much more streamlined process for law enforcement authorities investigating violent behaviour on its site,"

He added, "We've got to send a message and Twitter are now onboard to send the message that this sort of behaviour is not acceptable, that you can't hide behind anonymity,"

"What they've [Twitter] agreed to do, is firstly they'll have a direct line of communication - something that wasn't there before. Secondly, if the federal police get in touch and say, 'Look we've got imminent threats being made, possible danger, serious threats', then they'll preserve the data, they'll cooperate with the police," Conroy told the show.

As ITNews put it, "The social network would keep "key information" for Australian police until legal processes around a particular user or set of tweets was completed... A spokesman for Conroy said Twitter was also "prepared to suspend account holders who consistently breach the terms of use" "

This all sounds as though Twitter had adjusted its policies to account for local Australian laws which is troubling considering that some Australian laws equate swearing and general anti-social behaviour with crime.

However, Twitter has now responded. While the company refused to go into specifics about the discussions it could say "We have not changed our policy or process for working with law enforcement."

The company also clarified that the rules for Australia remained exactly the same as for the US and other countries.

As such all police requests for data have to got through the MLAT process (used for going through the US courts) and that this could only be circumvented in an extreme emergency.

So ultimately, the Australian Federal Police have simply been made aware of these policies and know who to contact if necessary.

And that's it.