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The search was so secret that Twitter was initially barred from telling Trump the search warrant had been obtained for his account and the company now known as X was fined because it delayed producing the records sought under the warrant . Twitter ultimately produced the records according to the filing now public in the US Circuit Court of Appeals . The search warrant special counsel Jack Smiths office obtained sought data and records related to Trumps account . The platform which rebranded as X over the course of its legal dispute with prosecutors did not object producing records Smith sought but argued that the ban on informing Trump of the warrant violated the First Amendment and the Stored Communications Act a law that governs how third party internet platforms can be compelled to turn over user records . Prosecutors had changed their posture to allow for some disclosure because additional information about investigations of the former President that became publicly available after the nondisclosure order was issued the ruling said . The district court did not rely on risk of flight in its ultimate analysis . Prosecutors first attempted to serve Twitter with the warrant through their website for legal requests on January only to find out that the website was inoperative the website . Prosecutors successfully contacted Twitter . They successfully served Twitter through that same website two days later and served Twitter two days after they discovered that the site was inoperable . The website was . inoperative and prosecutors successfully contacted the website were inoperative. The next week however prosecutors contacted Twitter to check on the website. The website . The next day however they . were inoperating. The decision to serve the website inoperated. Prosecutors successfully accessed Twitter through the website and . served Twitter. The site was Inoperable. Prosecutors . The decision . Prosecutors subsequently contacted Twitter. They successfully contacted and servedTwitter through the same website .