This. You can tell that this is precisely how Elon fucked it. And this limiting code turned out to have the self-DDOS in it.

600 posts/day. That's like, STOP READING TWITTER AT ALL

@davidgerard and he’s lying about why. I’ve done some data scraping in my day and these limits are far too low to address those kinds of issues. Best speculation I saw before i was rate limited was he didn’t pay his service providers.