@scafaria ok, here's an even funnier version of the Twitter self-DDOS.
This is a video of my video of Twitter self-DDOSing itself played from a Tweet while the bug is still active and the page itself continues to flood Twitter with requests.
Now notice the trending topics in the sidebar: #TwitterDown, WTF Twitter, Rate Limit Exceeded, Damn Twitter
This might be the most perfect screen video ever recorded. 😆
@jake4480 that's what I said, but with a lot of incredulous f-bombs in for emphasis.
I've been laughing about this all morning. The next time I'm having a bad day as a programmer, I'll think of the inglorious soul who DDOSed Twitter FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE.
it's also entirely possible that someone decided they had enough, pushed to production, and walked out of Twitter HQ in a blaze of glory.
@sysop408 @jake4480 To be fair, the retry mechanism has probably been in there since pre-Musk. I've been that person (for places not named Twitter) and I imagine the conversation probably went like this:
"OK, we added a retry mechanism."
"Should we add a backoff mechanism or something to not DDOS ourselves?"
"Probably. I'll get to it eventually."
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