Reporting it publicly this way can also be a favor to both, as it gives them a fairly malleable narrative for reversing course, or directing responsibility, or both. Even if it’s simultaneously embarrassing to have it out there. And it’s not like either Musk or Twitter is a stranger to embarrassment, or particularly shy about courting it.
Edit: this of course depends on some other implementation details, like the rendering flow and browser behavior. If showing the error is memoized, it shouldn’t trigger the loop unless they’re also rendering some intermediate loading state asynchronously.
it's a 429 error, so the developer who posted this is an idiot. they're not even wrong. the 429 doesn't even touch twitter's infrastructure
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...