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They claim this new system is independent of Musk taking over Twitter, but the timing is interesting.

It started rolling out to everyone in the US in early October, and first version launched at smaller scale back in January 2021

Timing feels really poor. In the middle of an election while Twitter was about to undergo a change in ownership.

I wonder if it would have seen the light of day if they waited until after the acquisition though.