Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by dogecoinbase 1083 days ago
They are, but it's self-inflicted: https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639474671754723

> Lest anyone doubt that Twitter was idiotic enough to release code that would cause a race condition and result in its own users executing a DDOS attack on it, here's the network console readout from Firefox showing all the network requests blasting away.

1 comments

That's great, so just leaving a tab open in the background to Twitter will help bring down Twitter. Let me for the first time ever, voluntarily go to Twitter's website

Edit: looks like they fixed that issue with a login screen and no 10 requests per second issue. rats