According to the filing, "various excerpts" of
Twitter's source code, which is used to run the company online, were posted on
Github, a Microsoft-owned platform for sharing code for software development,
by a user named 'FreeSpeechEnthusiast'.
Github said it took down the code on Friday at Twitter's
request.
Twitter has asked the US District Court for the Northern
District of California to order Github to produce "All identifying
information" associated with the 'FreeSpeechEnthusiast' user name, the March
24 filing showed.
Github did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for
comment on whether it has supplied such information. It also did not comment on
how long Twitter's source code had been publicly available.
Twitter also did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
The news was first reported by the New York Times. © Reuters