Doubling down on the obvious lies makes me wonder how embarrassing the truth is.

https://business.twitter.com/en/blog/update-on-twitters-limited-usage.html

Update on Twitter's Rate Limits

At times, even for a brief moment, you must slow down to speed up.

@paul Image description: To ensure the authenticity of our user base we must take extreme measures to remove spam and bots from our platform. That's why we temporarily limited usage so we could detect and eliminate bots and other bad actors that are harming the platform. Any advance notice on these actions would have allowed bad actors to alter their behavior to evade detection.