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Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you know how many current Twitter engineers are on H1B? Is this based on some data, or just speculation?

Around 300. https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z5px/twitter-employees-on-...

That's all employees, not just engineers.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Keep in mind that Twitter engineers are under extreme pressure, knowing that their H1B visas are at stake, to implement Elon’s whims as quickly as possible on systems they’re unfamiliar with. I doubt many of us would perform better in their situation.

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> when Reddit told you to

Is this projection?

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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post #15

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> get a wide swath of information anymore

My personal feeling is that a lot of the social troubles of the past decade stem from information overload. I subscribed to News Minimalist and have been feeling much happier lately.

https://www.newsminimalist.com/

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Hanlon, is that you?

Reminds me of the joke: Pavlov was sitting at the bar when the last order bell rang. "Oh shit", he thought, "I forgot to feed the dogs".

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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This is interesting. Judging from the screenshot, a huge amount of GET /TweetDetail is generated which triggers some rate limiting, as shown by the 429. If this is indeed due to the recent decision to enforce authentication for all API calls, it means the curlprit may actually be the API gateway or something similar downstream. Also, this behavior seem to never stop, which isn't what one would expect from an exponent…

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