In case you were wondering what 'self-DDOSing' looks like: https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639435788921057
Also a more complete write-up of what is taking the birb app down: https://waxy.org/2023/07/twitter-bug-causes-self-ddos-possibly-causing-elon-musks-emergency-blocks-and-rate-limits-its-amateur-hour/
The rumor is that apparently old timers at Twitter kept that part of the code locked down tight because fooling around in there was the easiest way to break it.
Looks like they were right.
