What the Leaked Twitter Documents Tell us About the Soul of Twitter

July 17th, 2009 admin

Boy, I’d love to be a fly on the wall at Twitter this week. Ever since mega-blogger Michael Arrington of TechCrunch got his hands on the 300+ confidential Twitter documents stolen by a hacker sometime in the last two months, I would assume that things have been…well, tense, at the microblogging..


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