How has Twitter limiting the number of tweets we can read caused it to DDoS itself?

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I saw someone say that the new Twitter update was causing it to essentially DDoS itself. Is this true? I have a very basic understanding of what DDoS is but I don’t understand how the two are connected. Thanks in advance.

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The twitter servers kept asking the tweet processing servers for more tweets since they were not updated to the new limits. So anyone that wanted to view one without an account, or was past the limit, twitter was trying to load in new tweets for every single one but kept getting denied. Too many requests = DDOS.

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