Imagine pulling your hair out trying to fix the servers for an entire day only to find out that it’s because some mf made a recursive tweet.

[text] quinetweet quinetweet twitter.comquinetweetsta… This Tweet is unavailable. PRV PR 829 Retweets 490 Quotes 2431Likes 162 Bookmarks o T v N Ran Blekhman blekhman Nov 30 2020 whats really amazing is that twitter programmers thought about this edge case and made sure the tweet would not display itself Q 4 g Q 1a i Marcel Molina noradio Nov 30 2020 We didnt think of this edge case. Someone did this about 7 years ago and the recursive hydration would make a tweet service crash by simply loading the tweet in a browser. It took a principal engineer an entire day of wading through heap dumps to figure out what was happening. o L AR VAL i