Twitter to hire web engineers to build subscription-based platform

Twitter has posted a job listing for web engineers to build a new subscription-based platform.
TwitterThe web engineers will join a team, codenamed Gryphon, and work with Twitter’s payments and the Twitter.com teams.

Twitter said this subscription platform would be a first for the company and might be reused by other teams in the future. It did not elaborate on how it planned on implementing the service.

The company edited the job listing to remove references to Gryphon and the subscription platform.