This is hilarious. Twitter appears to be DDOSing itself.
Something's wrong with Twitter so feeds aren't loading. Nothing loads, but my Twitter feed is still trying to load, but it doesn't stop trying after so many attempts.
Notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. I haven't done anything more than attempt to view my home feed. Now notice the bouncing scrollbar.
I'm gonna guess there was an bug introduced that was resulting in an endless loop of trying to fetch results, but with no results available, Twitter would have basically been DDOSing itself.
#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #Tech #DevLife
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Sheldon
in reply to Sheldon • • •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
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Unknown parent • • •I don't agree with people people who say there's no point in resisting. There's no taking Twitter back that's for sure, but watch how the #NAFO accounts work autonomously together to make life miserable for disinfo accounts.
There are plenty of very smart people with a mischievous streak, thick skin, and a lot of patience who are still there making some noise. From time to time, I put my Shiba face back on and go join them.
Sheldon
Unknown parent • • •Sheldon
Unknown parent • • •@scafaria ok, here's an even funnier version of the Twitter self-DDOS.
This is a video of my video of Twitter self-DDOSing itself played from a Tweet while the bug is still active and the page itself continues to flood Twitter with requests.
Now notice the trending topics in the sidebar: #TwitterDown, WTF Twitter, Rate Limit Exceeded, Damn Twitter
This might be the most perfect screen video ever recorded. 😆
#selfDDOS
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