PopBobertTwitter now forces you to sign in to view tweets
BetchI’m actually happy about that, because now if I accidentally click on a Twitter link, I won’t have to actually load the tweet.
bestdudeit'll actually start a ddos attack
so do it more often
so do it more often
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
ThalyssaIt actually does lol, so they're self-DDOSing themselves.
FartsWithAnAccentTwitter and reddit are in an intense race to become the shittiest website. I wonder who will win…
I still can’t understand how spez saw what Twitter was doing and thought it looked like a good idea
SJ_ZeroOH MY GOD IT’S FACEBOOK IN WITH THE CHAIR!
fftacothis, haha. maybe we’ll also see a fight in a boxing ring?
Flying SquidCory Doctorow invented a term for it: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification
Common feature of crapitalism
Common feature of crapitalism
They’re the same picture.
jtkI was skeptical at first, but I’m now 100% certain this is all intentional. Twitter and Reddit were too inspirational to the masses. The fascists are here to stomp it down. 44bn is all it cost them for Twitter, not sure they even had to spend much on Reddit.
I tried to load one or two the other day and was like … meh. Moved on. Now I’ll just not open Twitter links. All good.
What’s sad is I’ve been closely following this and was still somewhat confused… how is a casual user gonna know what the fuck is going on?
I wonder if companies that use twitter to promote their junk will have to change things up.
Someone told me there were new Baldur’s Gate classes so I went to google, which lead me to a gaming article, which lead me to a tweet by the devs. The link didn’t load so I just gave up
Seems like Nitter is also not working… shame.
Image: “oh no! Anyways.”
harkI used the search until they locked that behind login. Now that simply viewing tweets is locked behind a login screen… you guessed it, I don’t bother with the site at all now. These clowns think their sites are indispensable, but there are plenty of alternatives (including simply going without).
With the new rate limiting, I think it would be not too long before one would need to buy Twitter to use twitter.
Coming Soon: Elon, screaming into a void that only he pays for…
Thanks Twitter for protecting me from the opinion of edgy 23 year olds
I quit twitter about a decade ago. I could have sworn this was the reason. Did they try this back in the day for a minute?