Confidential Twitter documents
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- If someone gets hold of private documents and sends them to you, and you’re an online publisher, what do you do?
Say you’re not interested and tell them to phk off? Publish and be damned, if not possibly sued, whatever the content? Publish bits and pieces according to your lights and sensitivities?
TechCrunch seems to have chosen the latter course.
When Hacker Croll claimed to have accessed, “hundreds of confidential corporate and personal documents of Twitter and Twitter employees,” s/he, “sent them to us,” says Michael Arrington (right).
There were some 310 documents including executive meeting notes, partner agreements and financial projections, meal preferences, calendars and “phone logs of various Twitter employees,” and although most are, “somewhat embarrassing to various individuals,” they’re, “not otherwise interesting,” says TechCrunch.
But who could resist? So by way of a teaser, “we are going to release some of the documents showing financial projections, product plans and notes from executive strategy meetings,” says Arrington, promising:
“We’re also going to post the original pitch document for the Twitter TV show that hit the news in May, mostly because it’s awesome.”
There’s, “clearly an ethical line here that we don’t want to cross, and the vast majority of these documents aren’t going to be published, at least by us,” he says, adding:
“But a few of the documents have so much news value that we think it’s appropriate to publish them.”
Twitter TV show? Fair enough. But “financial projections, product plans and notes from executive strategy meetings”?
They’d be extremely relevant to people or companies who might be thinking of competing with Twitter.
But who else would the interested?
Just asking.
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July, 2009
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