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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

In rare cases when a non-bot tries to participate in Twitter, the uber-bot [type T] prevents the whole bot network from negative impacts by serving a 503 error to the homunculus’ browser. ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. It can get worse when a URI gets retweeted often.