Elon's Master Plan:

Phase 1: Shut down API for almost all developers

(Oh sh*t, suddenly everyone is scraping the site!)

Phase 2: turn off read access to ALL of Twitter after 599 posts are read...

Step 3: ?

Phase 4: Profit!

@tchambers Yeah, really. I didn't see it coming, but in retrospect, "let's get rid of the efficient way to retrieve content" inevitably leads to "people using inefficient methods to retrieve content".