Twitter Source Code Released (UPDATED)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 27, 2023,
updated Apr 03, 2023

• Twitter admits parts of its source code leaked online

  In a court filing, Twitter also asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to order GitHub to identify the person who shared the code and any other individuals who downloaded it, reports The New York Times.

• Twitter says parts of source code posted online, seeks leaker

  It is unclear when the code was posted online or whether its leak exposes Twitter to security vulnerabilities or hackers. Twitter’s takedown request to GitHub described it as “proprietary source code for Twitter’s platform and internal tools,” while the legal filing called it: “various excerpts of Twitter source code.”

  Musk said earlier this month that Twitter would “open source” all of the software code it uses to recommend tweets on March 31.

• Twitter says parts of its source code were leaked online

  According to the legal document, filed with the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, Twitter had asked GitHub, an internet hosting service for software development, to take down the code where it was posted. The platform complied and said the content had been disabled, according to the filing. Twitter also asked the court to identify the alleged infringer or infringers who posted Twitter's source code on systems operated by GitHub without Twitter's authorization.

• Twitter: Parts of its Source Code Leaked Online

  According to the legal document, filed with the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, Twitter had asked GitHub, an internet hosting service for software development, to take down the code where it was posted. The platform complied and said the content had been disabled, according to the filing. Twitter also asked the court to identify the alleged infringer or infringers who posted Twitter's source code on systems operated by GitHub without Twitter's authorization.

UPDATE

More today:

• Twitter hunts for suspected former employee who leaked source code on GitHub

  Twitter Inc. is attempting to identify the person who leaked parts of its proprietary source code after it was discovered to have been shared on GitHub for at least three months.

• Twitter wants to know who leaked parts of its code on GitHub

  Twitter is itching to find out who has leaked part of its code.

• Twitter says in court filings that parts of source code used to run site were leaked

  Parts of a Twitter code used to run the social network were leaked online, the company said in a court filing first reported by the New York Times on Sunday.

  Driving the news: Twitter said in a Friday filing with the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California against GitHub, a Microsoft-owned software collaboration platform, that the leak included the "[p]roprietary source code for Twitter's platform and internal tools."

Microsoft takes it down:

• Twitter Hunts Down Github User Who Leaked Company's Source Code

  On March 31, Twitter is set to open source its recommendation algorithm. Until then, someone on a more urgent timeline has published Twitter code in public. A GitHub repo containing Twitter's "proprietary source code"was taken down by Twitter last Friday. TorrentFreak can confirm that Twitter is taking legal action to identify the leaker.

• GitHub Suspends Repository Containing Leaked Twitter Source Code

  Twitter sent a copyright notice to code hosting service GitHub to request the removal of a repository that contained Twitter source code.

Much later update:

• 2023-03-30 [Older] Github ordered to identify user who leaked Twitter source code [Ed: This is how much Twitter really values "Open Source"]

• 2023-03-31 [Older] Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm Is Now Open Source [Ed: Openwashing or selective disclosure]

• 2023-03-31 [Older] Twitter’s recommendation algorithm is now on GitHub [Ed: Elon Musk's Twitter chooses proprietary Microsoft prison to prove "openness"]