I wonder what does this exactly mean. Does this mean that you are not allowed to figure out how some feature exactly work or is it just to forbid you from trying to manipulate algorithms (and exploit them)?
Doesn't mean anything, just someone filling in the hours, it'd be faster and more effective to build from scratch, anyone who could reverse Twitter already knows how to make a better clone. The bigger a company gets the more they hire people who work on pretend problems like this.
If I was in court over that, I'd argue the UI being dogshit is because of the management of the product teams, not because of the engineering department/technical limitations/technical merit (or lack of thereof).
That would be in line with Musk/Tesla's whimsical protectiveness of Tesla software. I expect more free speech on Twitter but draconian lockdowns of the IP/API's, push for real names and ramped up data mining of the human cattle.