The staff at Twitter have not had a great week. Just a day after Twitter personal accounts of staff were hacked, they reported that internal business documents were stolen and were being sent to various blogs and news websites.
Most refused to publish them online however TechCrunch decided to show them, first the revenue reports and a document which detailed Twitters marketing and development strategy over the next year.
I have to say that I’m a bit surprised that TechCrunch decided to publish these private documents. These documents were stolen from Twitter. The fact that they didn’t steal them themselves is neither here nor there.
I wonder how Mike Arrington would feel if his site was hacked and internal information was made public?
What do you think, given the circumstances, should TechCrunch have published these documents?
Kevin
Even though they (TechCrunch) did not steal the documents, they should not make it public.
All they have to do is to get Twitter to confirm that they have the documents to prove to the non-believers.
After all they are doing this for publicity only… why the need to make it public ??