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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?