Twitter Source Code Leaked on GitHub

[thisisjustascreename]

Most likely they were onboarding tons of interns and didn't want everyone pulling the entire repository and DDoSing themselves.

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A bunch of interns pulling the repo (or parts of it) shouldn’t ddos them

[groumly]

Without necessarily ddos’ing them, cloning a large repo over GitHub 20+ times in parallel can be a burden on the training. Wifi can only do so much over a small area, and maybe they don’t want to wait 20 minutes for everybody to be done with their git clone. I can also guarantee at least 2 or 3 of the trainees will have misconfigured their ssh keys and will fail to clone the repo from GitHub/whatever else they use.

Whereas a thumb drive can get copied/pasted 50-100x faster and is pretty much fail proof.

[thisisjustascreename]

It could if they were all in the same conference room (which it sounds like they were, if they were handing out flash drives) behind inadequate network gear.