Krassenstein's individual payout isn't news, agreed, and makes for an unsuitable submission.

But Twitter initiating its revenue sharing program and making payments to many people under it certainly is news, and I'm surprised to not see it being actively discussed on this forum today. (I did a look under Active and searched on 'twitter' and found only this submission and this other one - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36716608 - which has had little discussion after 7 hours, and has also chosen a too specific instance as the submission link).