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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When they changed it so that only logged-in users can access tweets they also accidentally caused it to DDOS themselves, because they didn’t handle this case correctly.
Someone would want to look at a tweet, but as they weren’t logged in they got an error message. The website would then again try it, only to get another error message. So every non-logged in user would make hundreds of requests over and over again.
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