Italian by heritage. Canadian by birth. American via immigration.
Doing database stuff. Born in Canada. Living in the US.
The one interesting thing in that story is this:
"Twitter’s U.S. advertising revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million, down 59 percent from a year earlier, according to an internal presentation obtained by The New York Times."
Imagine the drop when Twitter is inaccessible to signed-out and rate-limited users.
Welcome new twitter expats!
I know for a lot of you this is a temporary migration, and you'll head back once they fix the problems.
But before you go back to twitter, take this thought with you: the owners of twitter don't just push their agendas at you. You already know that, and probably think it doesn't affect you. But what you don't see is how much stuff is gone there now. You don't see who's gone, or what views aren't there anymore
I don't know how many more times I can say this, but this Elk thing really made Mastodon easier to process in my brain, and it's easier on my eyes.
I want to engage more, find more of my people. I'm still annoyed that Twitter is going down. How many news stories did we learn about? Not what Sinclair wants to sugarcoat in the B or C block of the local news, but the actual happenings.
Twitter is so much to marginalized communities/people, but I'll keep talking about Elk if it gets people here.
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
Lest anyone doubt that Twitter was idiotic enough to release code that would cause a race condition and result in its own users executing a DDOS attack on it, here's the network console readout from Firefox showing all the network requests blasting away.
Of course I immediately closed out my connection because I'm a good person.
...but wait! It's the weekend and Evil Sheldon is in control so I kept the party going for a while since Twitter insisted on it.
#TwitterDown #Twitter #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS
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.
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