More discussion here, from a different announcement of the same news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30606660

Comments moved thither. Thanks!

(This was a fine submission, but the other submission was earlier and arguably gives more background than the corporate press release, so it makes sense to merge the threads.)

Here is a story from today summarizing twitter's release. For those who missed both these HN discussions yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30631682