Notice that isn’t a question, it’s a statement of fact Twitter is having a bad month. After it was blamed, albeit incorrectly, for a breach leading to the disclosure of both personal and ...
Agree with @fak3r. Everthing that can be done with .htaccess can be done in the main apache config file or a virtual host config file, so when you have full control of the server .htaccess should not be used.