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by vincentchu 2573 days ago
This tweet (or one like it) caused a massive Twitter outage.
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imhoguy 2573 days ago
Yeah, "If you type 'google' into google.. you can breakthe internet, so please no one try it" IT Crowd /s
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sdenton4 2573 days ago
Nothing like finding a loop in a simple graph...
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brokensegue 2573 days ago
Citation?
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vincentchu 2573 days ago
Used to work there :D
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StavrosK 2573 days ago
Was it because Twitter tried to recursively load the previews?
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sbmthakur 2572 days ago
Was there a post-mortem about it?
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Paul-ish 2572 days ago
Is that because some algorithm assumed link cycles weren't possible?
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