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It clearly wasent reasonable, as it missed the actual main alerting account for a nation of hundreds of millions. Basic data analysis should have caught that a non goverment body was important enough to exempt, but they just didn't do it. The exceptions they did do were clearly to basic or lazy.
Yes, applying API limits is deeply flawed and stupid, but if youre going to do it, you have to do a good job, or people who relied on your service may literally die.
Its clear Musk gives no shits about the larger responsibility that taking over a social network with hundreds of millions of users brings.
What kind of "basic data analysis" are you referring to? I mean, it would be nice if that was a practical idea, to assess nearly every Twitter account and determine if it should have an exemption, but I don't see that it is. You either have an insanely labour-intensive process, or you have an imperfect automated process. Or, you just draw a line in the sand, as they did.
I don't think you can claim that Twitter has a "responsibility" in any meaningful sense, either. It's a private website, they get to set the rules and change them as they see fit. That's how it's always been. The responsibility lies with the organisations tasked with distributing the information (which also doesn't include NERV, they do it voluntarily).
I don't even think Musk made this change to try and make money - in my opinion, ever since he was locked into the purchase the plan changed to running it into the ground. On the way down, Musk can experiment with all sorts of horrible things - such as API charges - and while they won't get away with everything, the things they do get away with will set the standard for any social media platforms that come after the business ceases operations (primarily due to the debt accrued in the leveraged buyout Musk performed).
So yeah, Musk doesn't give any shits, the whole operation is intentionally destructive. But like I say, he didn't drop the ball here with Japan, he did it ages ago.
Are you trying to say that Twitter doesn't have data engineers capable of parsing tweets by "geography+ follower count + $disasterKeywords?"
If Twitter doesnt have the capability to do the equivalent of basic sql agaisnt its dataset, I dont even understand what the remaining 15% of people are doing there.