Sounds like a hasty shutdown. There is a good recurring meme on /pol/ for this that goes like "They are on to us, shut it down". This situation is that very meme.

Also makes me think there was a wild card at the last minute. I dont think they were expecting to be thrown under the bus like this, as in did not expect the deal would go through so quickly.

What it tells me? The Twitter has been under white hat control for a while and this is just a cover story to expose it.