Kingston initially told BuzzFeed News she had a "strong belief" she had never retweeted or shared the thread.

After viewing a screenshot of her account tweeting the thread, provided to BuzzFeed News, Kingston said it had been posted automatically as part of a service she is signed up to called the Tweeted Times, which collates items a person's followers have been tweeting about and posts them.

"It's completely automatic. It's nothing I do intentionally," she said.



The tweet has since been deleted, but Kingston said she doesn't specifically recall having deleted it.

She explained this by saying she deletes Tweeted Times posts as a matter of course when something is sent out that she disagrees with or doesn't want posted from her account — giving the example of when her account posted the link for subscribing to The Australian newspaper.

"I'm very concerned about this and I have decided to disable my Tweeted Times," Kingston said. "I have a very firm policy of not tweeting material that is unethical or with serious legal risk."

The letter sent to Kingston is signed off by Paul Svilans, a lawyer at the firm Mark O'Brien Legal, and marked "confidential" and "not for publication".



Kingston posted the letter on Twitter where she is followed by more than 36,000 people. She said she understands confidentiality to be based on a relationship or prior agreement, and therefore not applicable to the letter.

"Some stranger sends you a threatening email out of the blue, I thought, I'm going to post it," she said.

Lawyer Adam Houda has agreed to act pro bono for Kingston in the matter.

Kingston told BuzzFeed News she was not aware of anybody who had received a letter other than herself and West. Taylor's office did not respond directly to a question on how many letters were sent out.