This was special. A client’s Drupal site went down for nearly 24 hours Fri-Sat night because their Twitter feed view somehow triggered massive amounts of traffic in & out from Twitter’s API servers.

tcpdump was just streaming constant inbound & outbound traffic from the same /24 belonging to Twitter.

It was a Saturday night so I disabled the widget and will look into it more during the week. I would have imagined they’d have some kind of rate limiting on failure.