I can't imagine there are any surprises in the documents. Is Twitter making any money yet? No? Then I'm not going to be surprised when internal documents show they have no plan for a revenue stream.

Yeah that was sort of my reaction too. I haven't looked at the documents to see if there's any meat in there; the debate mostly just seems to be over the disclosure rather than actually about the content.

I see uaudio FPPed it, so we'll see where the discussion goes, I guess.

Interesting question of journalistic ethics meeting the Internet

I don't think there's an ethical argument for publishing the documents at all. They aren't newsworthy; nobody's life or freedom hangs in the balance; public funds aren't at stake. This would not pass the test of worthiness in a traditional newsroom. It's internal business information and sounds boring to boot. Since it's private, was accidentally leaked, and there is very little case for a public interest in any of the content, they really shouldn't publish them, if they aspire to any semblance of ethics. They seem to have misunderstood the purpose of journalism as "Publish everything you can find out!!!" ...that's never been its purpose.