Post #685010

2023-07-01 15:03 UTC

This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself. The Twitter home feed&#39;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&#39;m being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right. The second video shows why it&#39;s jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon&#39;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&#39;s amateur hour. #TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS

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@sysop408@sfba.social 2023-07-01 15:13

Lest anyone doubt that Twitter was idiotic enough to release code that would cause a race condition and result in its own users executing a DDOS attack on it, here's the network console readout from Firefox showing all the network requests blasting away. Of course I immediately closed out my connection because I'm a good person. ...but wait! It's the weekend and Evil Sheldon is in control so I kept the party going for a while since Twitter insisted on it. #TwitterDown #Twitter #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS

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@csegura@sfba.social 2023-07-01 18:52

@sysop408@sfba.social 😭😭😭

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@Bruhio34@sfba.social 2023-07-01 19:52

@sysop408@sfba.social bruh

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@MishaVanMollusq@sfba.social 2023-07-01 22:50

@sysop408@sfba.social

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@skydog@sfba.social 2023-07-02 04:22

@sysop408@sfba.social Elon has secretly placed a billion dollar bet that the first man on Mars will have a limp. He swore he'd make money off of Twitter, and he's finally found a way to do it!

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@cb17@sfba.social 2023-07-02 12:22

@sysop408@sfba.social i don't think you understand: this is Linda Yaccarino's fault now :)

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@Miragee@sfba.social 2023-07-02 15:56

@sysop408@sfba.social This morning I can read Tweets, ReTweet, and Like, but cannot Reply, or create Tweets, or even send a “test” DM.😢

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@Marlee@sfba.social 2023-07-02 23:31

@sysop408@sfba.social You are famous now.

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