SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Twitter has filed a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit against it for allegedly violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

“This case is another in a growing line of abusive, putative class action lawsuits brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act,” the Sept. 16 motion to dismiss states. “The statute, intended to curtail certain kinds of invasive telemarketing practices, has been co-opted by the plaintiffs’ bar to seek windfalls for practices and from companies that Congress never intended to regulate.”