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by shawnc 1084 days ago
My 14yr old daughter sent me this screenshot the other day with the comment "I think that one sentence sums up twitter pretty well".

https://capture.dropbox.com/GqgTAxRimqAXzrdo

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I see a giant circle around like 10 sentences, none of which feel like the sum up twitter in any way? After some consideration I guess maybe you're referring to "What's happening?"
Fair enough - the sentence in question was indeed 'What's Happening?'
Your 14 y/o daughter is fired.

I tried to point this out below. It's not even a DDoS, it's fake news.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36561808

it's a 429 error, so the developer who posted this is an idiot. they're not even wrong. the 429 doesn't even touch twitter's infrastructure. the HTTPS TLS terminates at a Google VM, which gets relayed depending on the VIP used to hit it, but the traffic never gets past that Google VM. This is literally /HOW/ companies deal with DDOS.

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...

it's unbelievable that my median salary for the past decade is $3,000 after several years of "Startup" followed by "How to Start a Reboot of My Life"

> "What's happening?"

That's a very good question.

Fyi, on mobile the image doesn't load and the download link is broken.
Loads fine for me on Firefox Android (but I don't get which sentence is supposed to sum up Twitter).
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