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The diffraction intensity distributions for orthorhombic crystals containing the ordered twin boundaries of the system (110), <10> were calculated in the kinematic approach using the Monte Carlo computer simulation technique. A simple model of short-range order in the arrangement of the twin boundaries was assumed to generate the nano-twinned structure. Analysis of the intensity distributions showed that such a twin boundary distribution results in the formation of extra peaks along the reciprocal lattice rods that are perpendicular to the close-packed planes. These extra peak intensities and positions are dependent on the most probable distances between the twin boundaries and on the degree of short-range order.