I don't understand something: wouldn't that be extremely bad for twitter? i mean they need subscribers for pushing their advertising, or so i was told.
Not if they are a cost center for the propaganda machine. In Soviet Union no one cared how much Pravda earned from the subscriptions, since it was not their purpose.
I think they are fighting for survival, they might be taking this court action that was pushed by some ten republican states very seriously - this case has a strong legal basis. I suspect that its all business.