Max KennerlyJul 1, 2023

LOL this is not how you deal with "data scraping," this is how you deal with a catastrophic loss of system capacity.

You limit data scraping by blocking things a human user couldn't do, like access a thousand posts a minute. This is aimed directly at reducing normal activity across the whole system.

Show threadnadin brzezinskiJul 1, 2023
@maxkennerly and I got evidence of that. Just collecting in one place, my iPad
Show threadC\\hris🌪Jul 1, 2023
@Nadinabbott @maxkennerly honestly I forgot about all that w/ not paying the bills. It makes me wonder because this is so far out of left field, driving users away, it doesn't make any sense.
Show threadnadin brzezinski

@wxChris13 @maxkennerly he intends to crash it. Nothing else makes sense. Though there is this too And…we may know why…enough to be dangerous. They are under a massive denial of service attack…launched from twitter. It’s rather funny 👇🤡🤣😆😂👀

Look at this Ben https://sfba.social/users/sysop408/statuses/110639755659702772

Sheldon Chang 🇺🇸 (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image @[email protected] 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. 😆 #selfDDOS

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Show threadC\\hris🌪Jul 1, 2023
@Nadinabbott @maxkennerly okay, you just have to laugh at this point. Like wow.
Show threadnadin brzezinskiJul 1, 2023
@wxChris13 @maxkennerly we have, all day. My initial thought was…zaporizhia npp on July 5th, nope, it’s simple incompetence
Show threadjust adrienneJul 1, 2023
@Nadinabbott @wxChris13 @maxkennerly according to the NYT, Linda Y actually got him to pay that bill the other day https://archive.is/hmZYW
Show threadC\\hris🌪Jul 1, 2023
@adrienne @Nadinabbott @maxkennerly interesting. Tha is for sharing. So, wonder what all this is then?
Show threadThe Actual BrianJul 1, 2023

@wxChris13
@adrienne @Nadinabbott @maxkennerly

It doesn't have to "be" anything, really.
Musk is a "Ready, FIRE!, aim?" kind of boss, so he just reacts.

He is pissed that people are using Twitter to train chat bots. He wants that to stop.
That might be all it took.
A temper tantrum.

Show threadjust adrienneJul 6, 2023

@wxChris13 @Nadinabbott @maxkennerly somehow i missed this mention. my assumption has been, and continues to be, that someone just broke something real bad by deploying to prod on a Friday afternoon, and the "600 tweets per day" numbers were made up retroactively to make it seem deliberate.

(It's definitely not a consistent 600, and it's been fluctuating a lot over the last few days.)

Show threadThe Actual BrianJul 1, 2023

@Nadinabbott @wxChris13 @maxkennerly

I'd agree, but there is one other, sensible explanation.

Musk is so detached from reality, so isolated from anytime but sycophants, and so egotistical that he actually believes he's saving Twitter, preserving free speech, and about to start making money.

In short, he's not that bright, so things don't have to actually make sense.

He's not playing 4D chess.
He just thinks he is.

Show threadnadin brzezinskiJul 2, 2023
@TheActualBrian @wxChris13 @maxkennerly
Show threadThe Actual BrianJul 2, 2023

@Nadinabbott @wxChris13 @maxkennerly

Epic. Brilliant. True.