[mrguyorama]

"It takes 24 hours" is a clear sign that it's a human being looking up an internal documentation page and running the scripts it points to.

Unless I'm just not creative enough to reason why you can log into twitter from a country you've never been to with no 24 hour verification wait but fulfilling legal obligations takes 24 hours.

[tamcap]

In their defense, if the backup requires accessing archive tape drive records, long processing queues in non-scalable systems, etc - this could easily take 24 "physical" hours of things getting lined up correctly.

It's one thing to show you the last 24hr of tweets. Another to get a complete twitter history for given uid.