The rate limiting incident in Twitter isn't really what pushed me over to use Mastodon more and more. Currently there is a hashtag on Twitter related to the French riots that's calling on the expulsion of all Muslim, African, and Arab immigrants from the entirety of Europe. The trending hashtag (at #2) is filled with images encouraging mass killings and lynchings of Arabs. There is no come back from this.
@nixCraft 35 or so. I was a Network Engineer responsible for implementing changes to a fleet of devices and determined that code had to be able to do it well.. I've been in devops and automating since.