Twitter handed over a sealed document containing the tweets and data from an Occupy Wall Street protester's Twitter account to a New York criminal court today. The company was subpoenaed for defendant Malcolm Harris' information after Harris was arrested along with 700 others during an Occupy Wall Street protest last year. Harris has been charged with disorderly conduct.

While Twitter and Harris filed motions to kill the subpoena, the New York criminal court judge denied both motions earlier this year. Twitter was forced to hand over Harris' tweets from the period between September 15, 2011 to December 15, 2011 by today, or be fined and found in contempt of court, Bloomberg noted. And to add insult to injury, the judge ordered that if Twitter did not comply with the subpoena, it would have to make its financial information available to the court—according to All Things D, this information would be used to determine the amount of the fine.

The prosecutors in the case are interested not just in Harris' tweets but also information such as the "IP address he logged in from, direct messages, deleted messages, how long each login lasted, dates, time, and possible location information," as Ars reported in July.

Twitter is currently seeking a separate finding in a higher court to show that it is not responsible for its users' posts and should not be subpoenaed for them. In its May motion, Twitter's attorneys wrote that, "If the order stands, Twitter will be put in the untenable position of either providing user communications and account information in response to all subpoenas or attempting to vindicate its users' rights by moving to quash these subpoenas itself—even though Twitter will often know little or nothing about the underlying facts necessary to support their users' argument that the subpoenas may be improper."