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

It’s not a great analogy, but the idea is now you can only access tweets while logged in, previously you could not have an account at all and still see things.

But a lot of people don’t know that or still don’t have accounts, when you accessed the Twitter homepage not logged it would attempt to access tweets and fail…over and over and over. So it just keeps sending requests, effectively DDoSing it