Judging from the article title, the name of the publication, and the posters new username, they aren't exactly a disinterested party. Shrillness can be expected from True Believers, IME.
However just sticking with that article, the interest as far as social media and competing technologies is there I believe, and the hacker news people can see through that site's very obvious bias and see the numbers and information presented.
Edited title anyways, I was just reusing from other sites, agreed that could have been submitted better initially, apologies.