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In the midst of claims and counterclaims, TechCrunch today claimed that they contacted twitter before publishing the controversial documents. Reportedly TechCrunch published excerpts from “leaked”  confidential documents which claimed to be of a twitter employee. The document is said to be hacked to Google doc account and sent to TechCrunch is a zip file. The report which was said to be more than 300 pages has many document for twitter “internal” consumption  as it include twitter expansion plans, interview schedules, financial forecast and  many other sensitive documents.

TechCrunch claims that before publishing these excerpts, it contact twitter, which was later denied by twitter CEO Evan Williams in his blog post that no such permission has been given to TechCrunch for publishing this document. The post which was unusually big, detailed twitter plans to counter the threat by likes of Google and Facebook. It also gave a glimpse of way twitter team works.

TechCrunch which is widely read blog, has been accused of using unfair means in collecting information. And after this incident question has been rained about journalistic ethics.