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It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself. (sfba.social)
submitted 1 year ago by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social
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Attached: 2 images This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself. The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying. In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right. The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in. This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS. Unbelievable. It's amateur hour. #TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS

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[–] wave_walnut@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am also an amateur, so I am in no position to laugh at the Twitter engineers' blunder. I sincerely hope that Eron is now supporting their struggles materially and spiritually rather than shooting them in the back.

[–] zalack@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

"The shootings will continue until impressions improve"

[–] orcrist@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Oh the mistake is all on Elon. He decided to fire a lot of his core staff and he's paying the price now. Also, you are in a great position to laugh at the engineers. They're making the kind of mistakes as professionals that you and I might make as amateurs, and that is comedic.