Considering that Saudi Arabia still holds enormous amounts of money in Twitter, and twitter was how the Arab Spring and other movements spread, it certainly looks like it’s a deliberate crashing of the platform.
It started long before that. When Pope Sylvester threw in with Constantine is when I place it, but probably before that.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2009/02/11/slain-neo-nazi-angry-over-obama-victory-reportedly-prepared-‘dirty-bomb’-components