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by collectedparts 1273 days ago
(self-reply) looks the API call is coming from a script in "main.ed70037a.js" which is loaded from: https://abs.twimg.com/responsive-web/client-web/main.ed70037...

From nslookup, abs.twimg.com has canonical name twimg.twitter.map.fastly.net.

Honestly pretty shocked that something at their scale could be depending on Fastly for core assets.

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> Honestly pretty shocked that something at their scale could be depending on Fastly for core assets.

Why would that be surprising? Fastly has many customers of similar scale. Amazon.com has fastly as one of the options to serve as their CDN (as was publicized when a fastly outage took down amazon briefly last year).

Probably reductive but in my head Cloudlfare and Cloudfront are the only 2 "mega large" CDNs and, to your point, I've only ever heard about Fastly in the context of outages.