Giving advice about life that cuts right to point is not "blaming the victim". No one was hurt here. We're just pointing out the obvious fact that people spent their time unwisely when they built on top of private platforms.

The right thing to do is consider this a lesson well learned, shut up, eat crow, and get on with your life like an adult, safe in the knowledge that you won't make the same mistake again.

Generally speaking the vast majority of people in this forum have a shockingly bad understanding of how our government, legal, accounting and financial systems work. That infrastructure isn't going anywhere and companies like Twitter exist only because of these formal systems. Learning the details of the relationships between these systems is your responsibility. You can easily be taken advantage of without a knowledgable understanding of the rules of the game. This is no one's fault but your own.