Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) has taken legal action after pieces of the computer code used to run the social media site were leaked online, CNBC has reported, citing court filings.
In the latest issue since Elon Musk’s controversial $44 billion takeover of the company last year, CNBC said Twitter issued a subpoena on March 24, 2023, to the software collaboration platform GitHub, where a user identified as “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” shared excerpts of Twitter’s source code without permission, according to the filings.
The purpose of the subpoena is to identify the person responsible for sharing the code, Twitter’s counsel said in the documents, which were filed with the US District Court for the Northern District of California, the report said.
GitHub complied with Twitter’s request and removed the code that same day, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to CNBC, noting that the company publicly shares all DMCA takedowns, which occur when content is removed from a website at the request of a copyright holder, in the interest of transparency.
CNBC noted that Musk has previously claimed that Twitter will open-source the code used to recommend tweets on March 31, and said he expects people will find “silly” issues, and that providing code transparency will be “incredibly embarrassing” at first.
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