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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.

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[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Since Elon took over they've been doing endless quick patches and work arounds so they can rip bits of the code out - you can get away with that as long as you don't change the core function but the second you make a big change all those little bits are going to be stress tested in all sorts of new ways that require a lot of work hours to fix.

[–] lloyd@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At this point it seems like profitability is going to be impossible for them without further investment, they can’t keep going like this.

[–] shifty51@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

While losing advertisers all the while. The request for comment replying with a poop emoji blow my mind