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 brzezinskiJul 1, 2023

@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

SFBA.social
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🌪
@adrienne @Nadinabbott @maxkennerly interesting. Tha is for sharing. So, wonder what all this is then?
Jul 1, 2023 at 9:07pmWeb
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.)