SheldonJul 1, 2023

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

Show threadBabs 💙🐝⌛️🦋🔻Jul 2, 2023
@sysop408 This looks like a good explanation. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1675331352584134658.html
Thread by @maggiepint on Thread Reader App

@maggiepint: This is weird to say out loud, but I actually am kinda an expert in rate limiting, so I'm gonna explain some stuff. About half of incidents in large-scale production systems involve having more requests...…

Show threadSheldonJul 2, 2023
@BabsSheKing that’s a very good overview of the greater situation and goes into way more depth than what I posted.
Show threadBabs 💙🐝⌛️🦋🔻
@sysop408 I'm a layperson and I understood most of it. :)
Jul 2, 2023 at 12:58pmWeb
Show threadBabs 💙🐝⌛️🦋🔻Jul 5, 2023
@sysop408 and now your work was linked to in the Guardian 😊
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/05/twitter-elon-musk-verge-of-collapse
Twitter was locked in a chaotic doom loop. Now it’s on the verge of collapse

Since the ‘genius’ bought Twitter last year, he’s made a series of poor decisions – and now the platform is almost unusable

The Guardian
Show threadSheldonJul 5, 2023
@BabsSheKing Lol. I love that all the stories about Twitter lately have an echo of my voice in the background. I don't care that I'm not mentioned and it's better anyway if I'm not. It's more likely to stick for longer if it feels like the term #selfDDoS came from nobody and nowhere.