Personally, unless twitter did give TechCrunch the green light to publish the stuff they did (which @Ev denies in this tweet), i find techcrunch's decision to publish this info despicable. this is stolen, private information that is nobody's business. for tc to make it public only gives people an incentive to get their hands on things they shouldn't have and turn them over. If techrunch had morals, they would have said they're above this kind of thing and shredded the info...before reading it themselves - it's none of their business either.

I'd like to see Twitter take a stand and never give TC the scoop on anything again.

I think morals a secondary here, I am not sure how Twitter can't be suing TC over this.

Techcrunch has dropped an ax over their own feet. I wouldn't be surprised if they never recover from it.

Techcrunch has dropped an ax over their own feet. I wouldn't be surprised if they never recover from it.

i hope so.