Rev. Poppy Haze ð“…‹a summary by twitter user @discolando to explain the situation on Twitter and why there's a surge in new users
Bullet With Butter Tart Wings@poppyhaze Legitimate lol at the embedded tweets DDOSing the site
@the_arto the whole site is designed to give you as many tweets as possible because that's the utility of a social network, the immediate availability like a world wide bulletin board. so it doesn't surprise me this panic mode immediately crashed the site
@poppyhaze And they got a decade+ of free publicity off of every news site in the universe embedding tweets, so having that help take the site down is just *chef's kiss*
@the_arto they've also killed the utility of the site for journalists. which is how the site has such an outsized importance to society