I normally would not link/boost something like this, but I think it's important to read this post in context of sysop408's analysis and consider what these two pieces of information together imply about… how should I put this… how degraded Twitter's executive situational awareness is https://mastodon.social/@oolon/110639965522378091

Did Elon Musk just accidentally DDOS his own site by ordering an anti-scraping measure added without testing, then introduce rate limits because the site appeared to be under DDOS?