Twitter DDOSing Itself

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

A screenshot of a social media post jokes that Twitter is effectively DDoSing itself: the site keeps retrying requests while the home feed fails to load. The punchline is that Twitter’s login restrictions and repeated requests supposedly created a spectacular self-inflicted outage, making it a fitting reaction to Twitter’s technical problems. EN: A screenshot of a social media post jokes that Twitter is effectively DDoSing itself: the site keeps retrying requests while the home feed fails to load. The punchline is that Twitter’s login restrictions and repeated requests supposedly created a spectacular self-inflicted outage, making it a fitting reaction to Twitter’s technical problems.

• @gentoomemes / 5177 2023-07-03