SheldonJul 1, 2023

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

Show threadSheldonJul 1, 2023

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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@sysop408 you may have inspired me to log in, scroll that thing like the price is right, and then let it not pull new messages for forever. Lol
Jul 1, 2023 at 5:42pmWeb
Show threadSheldonJul 1, 2023
@ATLeagle I don't know how widespread it is, but it's still doing it for me. I was able to post that video to Twitter and then do a new recording of the bug still happening while the video of the bug plays in the background. lol. It has been going on for at least three hours.
Show threadchevelle67Jul 1, 2023
@sysop408 @ATLeagle I`m still getting notications & can reply...but that`s it...no twitter feed
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@chevelle67 @sysop408 I checked it out . My scroll ended on a conversation questioning the rate limit, with a reply of Twitter be hating.

The perfect ending

Show threadSheldonJul 1, 2023
@ATLeagle @chevelle67 this is the best feature that Elon Twitter has released.
Show threadchevelle67Jul 2, 2023
@sysop408 @ATLeagle ........sorry.. best ? feature 😋
Show threadchevelle67Jul 2, 2023
@ATLeagle @sysop408 she ran out of air...😢 how could a billionaire do that to a well run oiled machine in less than a year....all for a stinkin $$ / month