Lol. So uh. I just can't access twitter anymore. Full stop. I guess I hit my 600 tweets already?
I always knew twitter was going to die under musk but I didn't quite think it'd be like this
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.
(but also, in spite of everything, you can still sometimes access it even when it says you're rate limited, because the site is held together by string and paperclips and hope)
