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It's a central and ongoing misunderstanding throughout the document that, beyond verified users, the Court does not realize Twitter account is not associated with a verified human identity. A judge should not be walking into this case completely ignorant of the subject matter that will be presented to them, but this one is.



It is unreasonable to expect a judge to be a subject matter expert on every case they preside over. That's why they ask questions. That is a reasonable question considering there are ways of paying for twitter and ways of getting verified on twitter.


Judges are assigned randomly. They have other cases. It's the lawyer's job to inform the judge on what they need to know.


“Oh, shit, we have a lawsuit about oil extraction rights up next week. Anyone know a judge who’s also an amateur geologist?”

That’s not how it works. The lawyers on both sides are responsible for explaining the salient points; in most legal systems the judge is not expected to be an expert on the non-legal aspects of the matter at hand.


Creating a Twitter account in recent years requires a valid email address and valid phone number, or at least it did until recently. Twitter definitely has a pretty good idea of which human being is behind the majority of its accounts.




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