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With the Twitter limits today, I think we are already seeing the fallout begin.

It took me 3 minutes of slow loading to get this and this.

It's been over half an hour now and I still have a blank twitter page, what if today is the day twitter actually goes down.

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[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 48 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] Nameproblem@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That could explain the limits today and changing APIs, blocking Nitter and users not logged in...

[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The login-block appears to be exasperating the issue, by creating a pull loop, they are DDOS-ing themselves.

~source

[–] foofiepie@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

Oh good grief. I thought you were exaggerating.

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