Opinion

A company of . . . twits

It took a story in The Post — followed by a DA’s subpoena — but Twitter finally agreed to ID a sicko who tweeted threats of an attack at Broadway’s Longacre Theater.

Nice of Twitter to pitch in, eh?

The company initially refused to help, claiming the threat didn’t fall within its “strict parameters” for releasing info.

Huh? The potential for danger was clear.

“I’m serious, people are gonna die like Aurora,” read one tweet, referring to the recent Colorado movie-theater massacre.

“I might just shoot up this theater in New York,” read another.

OK, the company was seeking to protect privacy. And it’s not required to automatically comply with police requests for info.

But NYPD officials, who are far better positioned to assess threats, determined that the situation needed urgent attention.

It even posted extra cops near the theater.

What makes Twitter’s attitude even more questionable is a recent controversy in which it suspended the account of a journalist who criticized NBC’s Olympics coverage and included a corporate e-mail address in his tweet.

Twitter said it acted then because NBC had filed a complaint. But it turned out that Twitter had alerted NBC to the message and suggested it file a complaint.

So much for users’ privacy.

(Twitter later apologized.)

In the end, the theater threat may amount to nothing. But Twitter couldn’t know that in advance; lives might have been at risk.

Let’s hope the company remembers that, should there ever be a next time.