The Twitter home feed’s been down for most of this morning. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself. ![]() Immediately, Twitter users started seeing “Rate Limit Exceeded” messages and every trending topic was about the collapse of Twitter:Īre shadowy AI companies scraping Twitter for training data? Maybe!īut on Mastodon this morning, web developer Sheldon Chang noticed another source of unusual traffic: a bug in Twitter’s web app that is constantly sending requests to Twitter in an infinite loop: Elon Musk called it a “temporary emergency measure,” claiming they “were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!”Īpparently, it didn’t stop the crush of traffic and, this morning, Musk announced they escalated their actions against supposed “extreme levels of data scraping” by rate-limiting the number of tweets you can view. Yesterday, Twitter started blocking all logged-out access to Twitter, requiring signing in to view any tweet or profile. ![]() For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “ several hundred organizations” who were conducting “ EXTREME levels of data scraping,” forcing them to bring “large numbers of servers online on an emergency basis” and enact emergency measures.
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