So I had a really fun day writing up about Twitter trying to DDOS itself. I didn't expect it to blow up the way it did here, but even more amusing is that someone took a screenshot of that post and cross-posted it to Twitter and now that post is blowing up on Twitter too!

Poor Twitter. Can't catch a break. It's down and even the holdouts want their turn to give it a good kick.

Update: I have to add a screenshot of that screenshot because someone just reminded me that most people can't view the tweet unless they have a Twitter account to login to. It's ironic of me to forget because that's how today's circus got started.

It also shows how a seemingly innocent change like this can snowball into an avalanche of unintended consequences.

Anyway, 4500 retweets later and the party continues.

#selfDDOS #TwitterDown

https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1675217212951461890

@sysop408 Gosh, I love the fact that when a user shares a #Twiiter URL, all non-accountholders just get bounced to the ‘Explore’ page...where they can explore indefinitely (much more than 300, 600, etc) and enjoy all embedded media while mining for links leading out of Twitter.

@pettybooshwah bah! I forgot they did that... which is exactly how this whole circus got started.

How very meta of me to forget.

@sysop408 'Explore' was recently tucked in behind the login interstitial, which was also standing in between any click-throughs to Twitter from another site.

As it's working now, Me, non-accountholder, gets an error when clicking through to view a tweet, but then a sidebar link to “free ‘Explore' page all day long!”

i.e. it ain't a feature it's a bug, and it's hilarious.

@sysop408 They “fixed" the limitless free exploration. The bottom end of the feed no longer appends perpetually.

As if anyone cares.