TechCrunch Posts Hacked Documents From Twitter

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 16, 2009 - 8:38am.

Palo Alto, Calif. - According to internal documents obtained from the company by a hacker and published by TechCrunch, Twitter projected $140 million in revenue by the end of 2010, and expected its first revenue of $400,000 in the third quarter of this year. The hacked document also shows that, by 2013, the company aimed to count 1 billion users, 5,200 employees, and generate $111 million in net earnings on $1.54 billion in revenue.

Twitter told TechCrunch that the document, one of over 300 that the hacker turned over to the news blog, "was never an official document and it certainly is no longer accurate."

"We are in touch with our legal counsel about what this theft means for Twitter, the hacker, and anyone who accepts and subsequently shares or publishes these stolen documents," the company said in a post on its blog.

The hacker purportedly accessed shared files the company was using Google's Docs service to store online.

TechCrunch also published another hacked document that outlines a pitch for a TV show based on Twitter, called "Final Tweet."

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/nd8pq (TechCrunch)

http://snipurl.com/ndbsv (TechCrunch)

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090715/tc_nm/us_twitter_2

http://blog.twitter.com/2009/07/twitter-even-more-open-than-we-wanted.html