Twitter source code leak leads to legal hunt for perpetrator

Code forms the basis for the web service’s various functions and internal tools

Twitter is now seeking the identity of the user behind that account as well as the names and other information of all users who posted, downloaded or uploaded the data. 

Parts of Twitter’s proprietary source code were published online until last week, the company said in a California court documents.

The code, which forms the basis for the web service’s various functions and internal tools, was posted on GitHub, the widely used code repository that’s now owned by Microsoft.