I'm honestly surprised that Twitter doesn't have some sort of circuit breaking for such gigantic attack towards major accounts. It's a PR nightmare that a circuit breaker would help a bit with, no?
Considering that Twitter has taken a decade and not managed to create a functional web media player, something like a circuit breaker is probably low on their priority list.
I still haven't figured out the correct way to watch a video on twitter. I always have to mess around with the mute button, seek back to start of video, etc.