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this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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It's not a decision I think - I twitter has now tried to move away from AWS/Google Cloud(?) for its hosting but now the bill is due. Elon doesn't want to pay the full billion dollar bill and AWS/Google Cloud(?) has rate limited them because Elon is stiffing them.
So they have to rate limit the users to be able to use the AWS request bottleneck, while implementing that, they DDOSed themselves:
https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639435788921057