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C.f. this tweet, which has a link to itself: https://twitter.com/mauritscorneIis/status/991424603401551872 https://twitter.com/mauritscorneIis/status/9914246034

C.f. this tweet, which has a link to itself: https://twitter.com/mauritscorneIis/status/991424603401551872 https://twitter.com/mauritscorneIis/status/99142460340155187... (And as we all know Twitter has no edit button, no post-upload shenanigans are possible here, just some clever guessing and reverse-engineering Twitter's ID generation algorithm)

vincentchu 7y ago
This tweet (or one like it) caused a massive Twitter outage.
- brokensegue 7y ago
  Citation?
  - vincentchu 7y ago
    Used to work there :D
    - StavrosK 7y ago
      Was it because Twitter tried to recursively load the previews?
    - sbmthakur 7y ago
      Was there a post-mortem about it?
- imhoguy 7y ago
  Yeah, "If you type 'google' into google.. you can breakthe internet, so please no one try it" IT Crowd /s
- sdenton4 7y ago
  Nothing like finding a loop in a simple graph...
- Paul-ish 7y ago
  Is that because some algorithm assumed link cycles weren't possible?
lepht 7y ago
There's a decent write-up of how to do this here: https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20090805/ https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20090805/ As you said, it largely relies on reverse engineering and bruteforcing Twitter's ID generation.
- pomber 7y ago
  Bot author here. That post was before twitter made changes on the id generation. Now it consists of four parts that you need to guess (the datacenterId, the workerId, a sequence and a timestamp). For more details, the bot repo is here: https://github.com/pomber/escher-bot https://github.com/pomber/escher-bot