This is hilarious. Twitter appears to be DDOSing itself.
Something's wrong with Twitter so feeds aren't loading. Nothing loads, but my Twitter feed is still trying to load, but it doesn't stop trying after so many attempts.
Notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. I haven't done anything more than attempt to view my home feed. Now notice the bouncing scrollbar.
I'm gonna guess there was an bug introduced that was resulting in an endless loop of trying to fetch results, but with no results available, Twitter would have basically been DDOSing itself.
@sysop408 FUN FACT: Running every request through an auth check is way more expensive than letting data be served to anonymous access.
Of course, they wouldn't just activate auth on every request without load-testing that, right?! ;)
