BriongloidJul 1, 2023

Twitter is refusing to pay Google for cloud services. Here’s why it matters, and what the fallout could be for users

https://aussie.zone/post/237605

Twitter is refusing to pay Google for cloud services. Here’s why it matters, and what the fallout could be for users - Aussie Zone

With the Twitter limits today, I think we are already seeing the fallout begin. It took me 3 minutes of slow loading to get this [https://i.imgur.com/bGKcVJ3.png] and this [https://i.imgur.com/CIk6qZg.png]. It’s been over half an hour now and I still have a blank twitter page, what if today is the day twitter actually goes down.

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Jul 1, 2023 at 9:24pmWeb
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That could explain the limits today and changing APIs, blocking Nitter and users not logged in…
Show threadBriongloidJul 1, 2023

The login-block appears to be exasperating the issue, by creating a pull loop, they are DDOS-ing themselves.

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Sheldon (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images 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

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