> Personally I think it is all of the above. I don't know--based on the behavior observed from the client-side in chrome devtools, twitter seemed to be DDos-in

> Personally I think it is all of the above. I don't know--based on the behavior observed from the client-side in chrome devtools, twitter seemed to be DDos-ing itself with no exponential backoff and no jitter. That seems like exactly the kind of problem I'd expect if I fired all the senior people.