Twitter source code leaks online on GitHub

Twitter is seeking information from Microsoft-owned platform GitHub on the person responsible for leaking parts of the social media platform's source code.

The code is used to power Twitter's online network, and was reportedly uploaded to GitHub by a user called "FreeSpeechEnthusiast".

Twitter has filed a case with the US District Court for the Northern District of California to request that GitHub hand over all information relating to the user.

The code was removed from the platform at Twitter's request last Friday. Twitter has not commented on the issue, nor has GitHub.