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Anybody knows if these requests were happening before the login only change? Because it would be hilarious if huge scrapping operation was a bug in their javasc
by comboy 3y ago
Anybody knows if these requests were happening before the login only change? Because it would be hilarious if huge scrapping operation was a bug in their javascript.
- globalise83 3y agoI can say for sure that a certain flow ("back" from Profile view or similar) would trigger an infinite redirecting loop on Firefox on my Android device, with probably dozens of requests over a couple of seconds until rate limiting kicked in. Maybe there were many of these little bugs which together looked like some kind of DDOS or scraping.
- andrelaszlo 3y agoPerhaps the engineers that understood how to analyze the logs were laid off?
- samb1729 3y agoI've noticed the frontend hammering the backend quite often in the past few weeks. It would not surprise me at all to learn that the "influx of scraping" was mostly Twitter's fault.
- ezoe 3y agoAre you suggesting Elon found out the true culprit the hard way?
- photonerd 3y agoSome of the scraping was because Twitter fucked up the API so bots moved to scraping. Dumb but obvious consequence