Cloud computing is a way for businesses to access extra computational resources over the internet. Without it, the internet as we know it would malfunction.
With the Twitter limits today, I think we are already seeing the fallout begin.
It took me 3 minutes of slow loading to get this and this.
It’s been over half an hour now and I still have a blank twitter page, what if today is the day twitter actually goes down.
That could explain the limits today and changing APIs, blocking Nitter and users not logged in…
The login-block appears to be exasperating the issue, by creating a pull loop, they are DDOS-ing themselves.
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Oh good grief. I thought you were exaggerating.