Last April, the Democratic National Committee filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump campaign, the Russian government, and WikiLeaks, alleging the three engaged in an illegal conspiracy to interfere in the 2016 election.
However, the DNC has been unable to serve WikiLeaks with the suit because the group won't respond to email so it asked and got permission to use Twitter.
All of the DNC's attempts to serve the lawsuit via email failed, the DNC said in last month's motion to the judge, which was ultimately approved.
The lawsuit was served through a tweet from a Twitter account established Friday by Cohen Milstein, the law firm representing the DNC in the suit, with the intent of serving the lawsuit.
The law firm representing the DNC set up a Twitter account for the sole purpose of serving the suit and has just the one tweet.
The DNC argued the unusual method of serving a lawsuit over Twitter was feasible because WikiLeaks, founded by Julian Assange, frequently uses Twitter and had even suggested it had read the DNC's lawsuit.
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"WikiLeaks seems to tweet daily," the DNC said in the motion made to the judge last month.
In the months before the 2016 election, WikiLeaks released nearly 20,000 internal DNC emails, many of which were related to Hillary Clinton. WikiLeaks later released thousands of emails belonging to John Podesta, who was Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign chairman.