“Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon’s latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.”
The home feed was down for most of the morning, and the web client kept retrying about 10 times a second against its own rate limit. The new login wall turned every open browser tab into a request cannon. Musk wanted to stop free reading and instead turned his own users into a botnet aimed at his own servers.