Part of the Twitter source code has been published on Github. Elon Musk’s company filed lawsuits. social at great risk. This is a new adventure that Elon Musk would do well. We have just learned that entire snippets of the Twitter source code have been hosted on the Github platform. The user responsible for this works under the pseudonym “FreeSpeechEnthusiast”. On Friday, the company filed a lawsuit in federal court for the Northern District of California to force Github to provide identifying information. It is not clear if the service accepted this request. The Microsoft-owned platform quickly removed the published code. According to our colleagues at the New York Times, on it is not clear how long exactly this information remained online, but it will be published for at least a few months.
Why is Twitter dangerous?
Another important fact provided by our colleagues, Twitter has launched an internal investigation and it seems that the person responsible for this leak is one of the employees who left the company after son takeover by Elon Musk. This distribution of source code is not at all harmless to the network. social. Indeed, it would be enough for this information to fall into the wrong hands to expose it to the risk of being hacked or extracting its users’ data. Also, the possibility of the site being taken down is not ruled out. The worst, of course, is never certain, but either way, it’s a new episode in the drama that’s been playing out since Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter. Remember that 75% of the company’s employees have since been fired. The leader recently told his employees that the company was worth only $20 billion when he bought it for $20 billion. Bezon knows where this figure came from, but nevertheless promises that one day it could reach $250 billion. Until those happy days on Recently it became known that advertising revenues fell by 40% after the takeover by Elon Musk. In particular, more than 70% of the top 100 advertisers have stopped including Twitter in their strategy for all of December 2022. So the new boss is trying to develop son a paid offering, and in particular Twitter Blue, but even here the results fall short of expectations.