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so I've seen rumors around, and keep in mind these are just rumors, from HN and others that Twitter has been accidentally DDoSing themselves.
in the Twitter UI as of a few days ago (and earlier while looking for more information on a related thing I accidentally confirmed this), it'd start making hundreds of requests per minute to Twitter's servers. now looking through it, I found this
https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639435788921057
obviously my source is pretty biased, but the self-request spam seems to at least be happening to some extent.
I strongly suspect that, while this happened, it isn't a significant cause of the ratelimits. I also do not have good information though.
The login wall was implemented within a day or so of the ratelimit suggests they have shared causes. I don't think the login wall caused the request spam, just the ratelimit - implying that the login wall couldn't have been caused by the ratelimit. And I think the ratelimit was intentionally imposed.
Also, if that was a primary cause - they've now fixed the request spam, why haven't they removed the ratelimit?
I also think (could be wrong vague memory) the request spam was a bug that existed on twitter months back when one was ratelimited (by the old anti spambot ratelimits that were 100x higher)
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