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It sounds like they are facing a novel denial of service attack that was near to the point of being able to imperil their service. This is an obviously temporar
by somenameforme 3y ago
It sounds like they are facing a novel denial of service attack that was near to the point of being able to imperil their service. This is an obviously temporary remediation to keep the systems up, not a new policy for the site. And all of that falls right under the purview of the CTO.
- epistasis 3y agoA more plausible explanation would be that they no longer have the engineering capability to maintain the site, or its prior attack resistance. If there is any sort of novel scraping going on, and their only response is to shut down the site for all the accounts, their engineering capabilities have been pretty much zeroed out, and it's a massive indictment of the leadership decisions. Plus, at this point believing anything that Musk says is extremely foolish. If this was something that was meant to believed, it would have been posted by somebody with more credibility in the organization who actually has something to lose by lying. That person is literally anyone except for Musk.
- user_named 3y agoThere is a mastodon link in this thread that shows whatsythe likely cause
- vb6sp6 3y agoThe GCP contract expired yesterday
- cldellow 3y agoMaybe. It's really hard for me to believe that a uniform 600 tweets read per _day_ limit for almost _all_ accounts is the best tool they have to mitigate a scraping attack. They likely have great insight into the risk profiles of each account based on age, size, past engagement. This is an incredibly coarse banhammer -- very close to just turning off the servers, IMO. Reasonable if it lasted for an hour, debatable if it lasts for a day, idiotic if it lasts longer. Would love to see the inside story, hopefully it gets leaked/reported at some point.
- kvetching 3y agoabsolutely insane. indictment on the engineers for lack of creativity. Twitter has been completely inaccessible on my android app all day. I unknowingly used up my rate limit in my bed this morning. There has to be some other motive- possibly related to France protests. Macron announced that social media was to blame
- kergonath 3y agoMusk rate-limiting reading (and not posting) on Twitter worldwide because of localised protests in a single country? You must be joking; this makes no sense at all.
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agopg already pointed out to him that there has to be a better way to handle it. I agree.
- dogecoinbase 3y agoThey are, but it's self-inflicted: https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639474671754723 https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639474671754723 > Lest anyone doubt that Twitter was idiotic enough to release code that would cause a race condition and result in its own users executing a DDOS attack on it, here's the network console readout from Firefox showing all the network requests blasting away.
- dylan604 3y agoThat's great, so just leaving a tab open in the background to Twitter will help bring down Twitter. Let me for the first time ever, voluntarily go to Twitter's website Edit: looks like they fixed that issue with a login screen and no 10 requests per second issue. rats
- brohee 3y agoEntities cutting service because they are not getting paid is technically denial of service I guess...
- seanhunter 3y agoNo it was "management by stochastic gradient descent" as per Elon's usual modus operandi.