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List of Twitter controversies
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This is an alphabetical List of Twitter controversies: * Censorship of Twitter * Abdullah Mohamed al-Dawood, Twitter comment about the harassment of working women * Sally Bercow, used her Twitter account to hint the name of Lord McAlpine * 2011 British privacy injunctions controversy, users of Twitter posting material connecting various British celebrities * CTB v News Group Newspapers Ltd, an English legal case between Manchester United player Ryan Giggs and defendants News Group Newspapers Limited * Disappearance of the Al-Suwaidi sisters, three sisters who from the United Arab Emirates * U.S. President Donald Trump has been criticized on his use of his Twitter account on various subjects ** Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump, a lawsuit filed by Twitter users blocked by President Donald Trump's personal account ** Trump Tower wiretapping allegations, where Trump accused former U.S. President Barack Obama on his Twitter account of wiretapping the phones of his Trump Tower offices during the 2016 presidential campaign * Horizon Group v. Bonnen, a libel suit brought by a Chicago real estate management company, against one of its former tenants * McAlpine v Bercow, a landmark legal case in 2013 between Conservative peer Lord McAlpine and Sally Bercow, the wife of John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons * Miley Save Fuzzy, a website in which an anonymous Miley Cyrus fan threatened to kill and eat their pet cat unless she returns to Twitter * List of people banned from Twitter ** Rose McGowan temporary account suspension over tweet related to Harvey Weinstein alleged sexual misconduct * PJS v News Group Newspapers, an English legal case in which an anonymised privacy injunction was obtained by a claimant, in order to prohibit publication of the details of a sexual encounter between him and two other people * R v Elliott, a criminal harassment trial based in Toronto * Samaritans Radar, a Twitter-based service which was intended as a way to inform users when their Twitter contacts were potentially in need of emotional support * Twitter Joke Trial, a United Kingdom legal case centred on the conviction of a man under the Communications Act 2003 for posting a Twitter joke which police regarded as "menacing" * Anthony Weiner sexting scandals, a former member of the United States House of Representatives from New York City who has been involved in sexual scandals related to sexting * WikiLeaks-related Twitter court orders, United States Department of Justice 2703(d) orders accompanied by gag orders issued to Twitter in relation to ongoing investigations of WikiLeaks issued on 14 December 2010
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