They still have a few employees in their German office in Hamburg. They operate a service targeted at German users and at least Twitter Ireland (which is the op

They still have a few employees in their German office in Hamburg. They operate a service targeted at German users and at least Twitter Ireland (which is the operator of the website for European users) is within full reach of the German legal system. Of course they can also absorb any money flowing from German customers in case Twitter would refuse to honor legal verdicts. > unless there's a nexus that brings Twitter to Germany then Germany's laws are not in play Keep in mind that anything you know about the US concept of "nexus" does not necessarily translate well into other country's laws and their idea of what laws should apply to which entity. As the article shows, German do apply laws to Twitter. The only problem would be enforcing such laws in practice but this is a non-issue in Twitter's case given enough will of the people involved. As shown above they have enough assets in reach.