SO's culture is one of the most toxic among all communities. People hesitate to ask and hesitate to answer. Announcement like this is more like a "will fix" comment. The key to solve it is to change the mechanism of some SO's rating and comment.
The title and content is not matching. As a to-customer company, whether it is a good or bad year depends on how much they earn from their customers and how much they grow instead of how badly they are regulated or criticized. As long as people love using Facebook, every year is a good year. If the article describes that Facebook is losing their users either drastically or gradually, I would agree with the title saying that it was bad for Facebook.
As a Chinese, I was never bothered by the 140 chars limit because symbols in Chinese can convey much more information than the same length of English characters.