How long is normal? The deal likely won't close for 6 months. Will all those engineers be sitting idle until then?
"Twitter Inc. locked down changes to its social networking platform through Friday."
Their major problems in many fronts have remained unsolved for a long time (e.g. spam bots, readability of long threads, functional bulk block lists etc.).
They aren't even that good at the one thing they seem to be passionate about: censorship.
Twitter on the other hand has such an extreme political bias that bias is written right in to the (current) rules for the platform
To compare the 2 is laughable