Andy Baio on Nostr: For the last two days, Elon Musk has been publicly freaking out about "EXTREME levels ...

For the last two days, Elon Musk has been publicly freaking out about "EXTREME levels of data scraping," so added "temporary emergency measures" like blocking logged-out views and adding tight rate limits on viewing tweets. But, apparently noticed first here by npub1jcmag9frjlldtt05vnx4wgdgafv2h5wxtn2cy83g4pn8vnu8pmfsh27kud (npub1jcm…7kud), a Javascript bug in the Twitter web apps is self-DDOSing their servers, sending an endless loop of requests — which seems related to, or maybe even the source, of their scraping panic. https://waxy.org/2023/07/twitter-bug-causes-self-ddos-possibly-causing-elon-musks-emergency-blocks-and-rate-limits-its-amateur-hour/