Re:Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
by DecXicon-28 on Saturday July 01, 2023 @05:59PM
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Unlike what people imagine, the selfDDOS bug that occurs does not burden requests to the Twitter system, but becomes a loop for users requesting access.
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yeh, i tried to mention this, but it got flagged quick. it's unbelievable that my median salary for the past decade is $3,000 after several years of "Startup" followed by "How to Start a Reboot of My Life"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36561808
it's a 429 error, so the developer who posted this is an idiot. they're not even wrong. the 429 doesn't even touch twitter's infrastructure
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...