Twitter to Channel Walmart Legal Victory in Discrimination Suit

• Female engineers at social-media company seek to sue as group • Court decision could set a new precedent in Silicon Valley

Twitter Inc. wants to be seen as just another Walmart Inc. In court, at least.

The social-media company, seeking to block female software engineers from banding together to sue it for gender bias, is aiming to sail in the wake of a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court decision that handed Walmart a victory against a group of women suing for the same reason.

Despite corporate lawyers’ success in wielding the landmark Walmart decision to their advantage, some employment experts say the Twitter ...