Some parts of Twitter source code leaked online

A user shared the code on GitHub

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Some parts of Twitter source code leaked online, report
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Some parts of Twitter source code leaked online, report

Parts of the source code used to run social media site Twitter have leaked online, marking the latest challenge for a platform struggling to reduce technical issues since its takeover by Elon Musk late last year.

According to the New York Times, documents filed with the US District Court for the Northern District of California indicate that Twitter issued a subpoena on 24th March to GitHub, where a user ide...

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