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

Question

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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Answer 1

Twitter: “You are past your limit, I won’t serve you any more tweets”.
App in confusion:”I don’t understand, give me more tweets!”.
Repeat this thousand times per second. For hundreds of thousands of users. Servers are busy replying to them, so they can’t serve “normal” customers