It was mentioned in another comment that something like a new Twitter API is released tomorrow, so maybe one of the last chances to use the exploit?

That would be so incredibly stupid. Burning a money machine of that magnitude for lulz? I don't think anyone would do that.

Purely speculation, but the exploit could be tied to the APIs that they are deprecating today. It's possible that this is simply a last hurrah

Interesting thought. I was thinking that an access token was about to expire, but I like your theory better.

Sometimes relationships fall apart and things get ugly.