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
Twitter shut itself down on the first day of Q3 and we're supposed to believe that this is about anything other than a free cash flow crunch?
Anyone check whether Google Cloud finally cut Elon off due to nonpayment?
Hope all is well. Saw you're not on twitter anymore.
Note that the J6C Report begins where only a handful of reporters have gone: with the words of the actual rioters. You need that to prove incitement but TV lawyers said it was all a waste of time.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23466611-221219-j6c-intro#document/p2/a2186700
I built a site where you drop in your Twitter archive zip file and it spits out a zip file of a website where your public tweets and threads are searchable. The tool, and extensive details, are here:
https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/
Example archive built with it: https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/