Twitter is DDoSing itself

3 years ago by Reddugee to c/technology

Attached: 2 images 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

The jokes are writing themselves.

Vaggumon 47 points 3 years ago

At this point if you still use twitter you are a moron.

path: 0 702037, hotness: undefined, score: 47, children: 1

TragicNotCute 32 points 3 years ago

Maybe even a …

twit

path: 0 702037 703588, hotness: undefined, score: 32, children: 0

SulaymanF 43 points 3 years ago

Incredible. There’s no way engineers didn’t push this to production without testing. So what happened? My uneducated guess is that Musk told them to force logins by the end of the day or something.

path: 0 703439, hotness: undefined, score: 43, children: 6

achsonaja 31 points 3 years ago

There’s no way engineers didn’t push this to production without testing.

That's quite an assumption

path: 0 703439 704029, hotness: undefined, score: 31, children: 2

gornius 11 points 3 years ago

Yeah, fuckups happen all the time even with great engineers. GitLab and GitHub are great examples.

path: 0 703439 704029 705158, hotness: undefined, score: 11, children: 1

Mereo 9 points 3 years ago

But in this case we have Elon Musk, a CEO who just wants to get things done. The engineers may have pushed this without testing because they don't want to get fired.

path: 0 703439 704029 705158 705489, hotness: undefined, score: 9, children: 0

Skaryon 16 points 3 years ago

I can perfectly imagine myself just implementing whatever shit my narcissistic man child CEO I'veong grown sick of demands of me without giving a single thought about testing

path: 0 703439 706088, hotness: undefined, score: 16, children: 0

thekernel 5 points 3 years ago

Likely a lot of lost institutional knowledge, plus good talent wont put up with bullshit and hang around unless they are tethered with visa restrictions or similar.

path: 0 703439 720092, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0

Skaryon 5 points 3 years ago

I can perfectly imagine myself just implementing whatever shit my narcissistic man child CEO I'veong grown sick of demands of me without giving a single thought about testing

path: 0 703439 706063, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0

slipperydippery 35 points 3 years ago

Testing in production, nice

path: 0 702291, hotness: undefined, score: 35, children: 1

pgm_01 1 point 3 years ago

Even better, the checkmark users paid to be alpha testers and get the privilege of using a paid app less than when it was free.

path: 0 702291 718977, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0

GrandpaDJ 16 points 3 years ago

If I still had a Twitter account I would be upset.

Anyways...

path: 0 702841, hotness: undefined, score: 16, children: 0

Abby 11 points 3 years ago

Such a noob move.

No rate limiting, no exponential back off... That's the easiest recipe for failure

path: 0 704508, hotness: undefined, score: 11, children: 0

Skaryon 10 points 3 years ago

Not even surprising anymore

path: 0 701940, hotness: undefined, score: 10, children: 0

MelodiousShark 6 points 3 years ago

Said this elsewhere but I bet Elon was the one who wrote that code too. I feel like an actual scripter/coder would know to rate them requests even for their own local services.

path: 0 716717, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 1

Reddugee 4 points 3 years ago

How DARE you accuse Elon Musk of actual labor?

I bet it's his army of yes men who weren't fired or quit when he stepped in.

path: 0 716717 717553, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0

Hiccup 2 points 3 years ago

Magnificent! Simply magnificent! Bravo!

path: 0 702484, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0

IHeartBadCode 1 point 3 years ago

path: 0 718410, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0

akai 1 point 3 years ago

'Elon' rhymes with 'moron'

path: 0 717971, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0

punkrocknoir -8 points 3 years ago

path: 0 718554, hotness: undefined, score: -8, children: 2

sadreality 3 points 3 years ago

path: 0 718554 720314, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0

vaiium 2 points 3 years ago

What does that even mean?

path: 0 718554 732122, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0

technology

@lemmy.world

login for more options

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related news or articles.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

go to feed...

technology

@lemmy.world

login for more options

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related news or articles.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

go to feed...