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Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits: "It's amateur hour" - Waxy.org (waxy.org)
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An "amateur hour" Javascript bug is self-DDOSing Twitter, sending infinite requests from users related to — or possibly even causing — Elon Musk's "temporary emergency measures" to stop web scraping.

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[-] madcc@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

He thought that Twitter's appeal to the best developers is the same as SpaceX's and Tesla's on their own tech areas, but to anyone else it's pretty obvious that Twitter isn't that special.

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