Arthur Besse to

Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 years ago

Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits: "It's amateur hour"

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Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits: "It's amateur hour"

Arthur Besse to

Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 years ago

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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

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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2•2 years ago
Oops! :P
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  Oops indeed. I wonder if they have any QA left at all, and if anyone in the development team actually uses Twitter anymore?

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