To be fair, the TechCrunch story has more information than Twitter itself provided in their initial statement (with regards to the 'why' of the suspensions).

That said, I submitted the source page but it failed to reach the front page for some reason:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2236675

Because, contrary to the posturing that happens on the site, people still prefer to read a gossip rag instead of actually see what's happened?

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