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Some of Twitter source code was made available to the public on GitHub by a user, possibly by a former employee who may still had or had access to Twitter’s severs or they may have had the source code saved on a personal device i.e thumb drive and may wanted to take revenge against a social media site as they may have felt they where wrongfully laid off.

Based on a screenshot from an archiving website we can see just a synopsis of what was uploaded to Gethub as seen below.

Based on the screenshot posted above thanks to the archiving website we can see a synopsis of what might have been made available in the Gethub depository that has since been taken down due to a DMCA request. We see for folders and a Readme.md. The four folders are tiled adp, ann, auth, aws-dal-reg-svc.

Much of the DMCA request that has been made available on GitHub some of the information has been redacted, you can read the DMCA at https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2023/03/2023-03-24-twitter.md.

Twitter also asked a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to issue a court order for Gethub to reveal the identity of the person or persons who uploaded the source code and they also want Gethub to also reveal the identity of those who also downloaded the source code, according to The New York Times article, source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/technology/twitter-source-code-leak.html.

The New York Times says that the source code may have been available for several months, but the archive screenshot show no forks. A fork is when someone makes a clone of the current repository. If this repository that was see in the screenshot posted above is updated or deleted this won’t affect any of the forks as they become a new and separate repository.

The screenshot of the repository says it was taken on 1/4/23 (January 4, 2023)