There was reporting that they were scrambling to move some infrastructure off Google since they were going to be cut off after refusing to pay their bills. The deadline was June 30, though there was additional reporting saying Linda Yaccarino restarted payments - https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-google-clo...

I am 100% sure that I didn’t load 300 tweets in the official app today. I was only accessing an account where I follow 17 people. I just counted and there were 14 new tweets (RTs counted as 2 tweets) in my feed from today (the average for a typical day in this account). And I was rate-limited today.

In the best scenario, the change is really intended, but they messed something with the implementation and Musk will never admit it.

In the worst, their infra is crumbling and they are inventing excuses to save face.

I read that they've resumed paying Google for their cloud infra... maybe Melon just paid for some low tier and he's yelling at his engineers and they're desperately trying to not hit the limits of those resources.

This was all foreseen:

“Things will be broken. Things will be broken more often. Things will be broken for longer periods of time. Things will be broken in more severe ways,” he says. “Everything will compound until, eventually, it’s not usable.”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-ho...