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>>ZacnyL+(OP)
It's not a self ddos if twitter isn't going down. You can see in the video twitter is properly handling the load and is returning HTTP 429 when the client is sending too many requests. Hitting the rate limiter or requesting a post is light weight. It's not like it's spamming login requests which require a lot of resources due to key stretching.

>>charci+sA
> It's not a self ddos

Maybe not

> if twitter isn't going down

I disagree. Ddos is a type of attack, not the result of an attack. If they're hitting their services way too many times in a distributed fashion, it's a ddos regardless of how it was handled.

Similarly, would you say this[0] wasn't a ddos because it was mitigated? I think not.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/26m-rps-ddos/