Twitter knocks website out

Yes, Twitter does scan a tweeted URL. It needs to do that to determine if page contains Twitter Card markup. If I remember right trying to detect and block malicious links was also implied when they started to forcefully wrap all links in their own shortener.

See URL Crawling & Caching for details on their bot.

That said the bot hardly does anything that should knock servers over, if it wanted to. As per comment you should be digging through server logs for starters.


Related Posts:

  1. urllib.request in Python 2.7
  2. Create New WordPress User after Twitter Signin, using Twitter credentials?
  3. How to display custom twitter posts with the twitter plugin?
  4. Show Twitter followers count snippets don’t work
  5. Including a post title in a twitter link
  6. Tweets based on Twitter hashtag into a pending WP post
  7. Is there a Twitter WordPress plugin that changes https to http?
  8. Displaying tweets problem with @username
  9. How can I style a certain element only when wptouch is active?
  10. Twitter feed – Failed to open stream [closed]
  11. Displaying Tweets from CPT
  12. can we add twitter count button on wordpress?
  13. Turn twitter-urls into list timelines?
  14. echo or return? [duplicate]
  15. Why isn’t my Twitter widget working in my theme?
  16. How to acces the twitter user profile link?
  17. syntaxError: ‘continue’ not properly in loop
  18. syntaxError: ‘continue’ not properly in loop
  19. WordPress Internal @ Mentions
  20. A plugin where users can comment with Facebook or Twitter or OpenID [closed]
  21. Importing Tweets with certain hashtags into WordPress
  22. Using WordPress publicize with main account and editor user accounts
  23. publish_post hook isn’t working for scheduled posts
  24. Customize Embedded Tweets (or, How To Hide Photos in Embedded Tweets)
  25. Is there a plugin that creates a WP post based on a Twitter account’s hashtag?
  26. Best way to allow manageable social media URLS?
  27. Twitter feed is showing blank in WP site [closed]
  28. How can I add @anywhere to my blog?
  29. Tons of Twitter rows in my database
  30. Displaying additional User Contact Information
  31. Searching for a better Twitter widget
  32. Should I ask my Twitter plugin users to create their own Twitter App and API Keys to use my plugin?
  33. Is it possible a one click user registration with Facebook or Twitter (or other Social Networks)?
  34. Twitter-like follow system, is there any plugin?
  35. How to Hide Ancestors/Threads in Embedded Tweets
  36. Trying to inject twitter metadata into using wp_head action in functions.php – get_the_excerpt() returns null
  37. Share comment to twitter after publishing [closed]
  38. Browser loading content from Twitter in admin area?
  39. Which social connect plugin do you recommend? [closed]
  40. Embedded Twitter feed won’t render nicely when loaded via Ajax
  41. Runng Cron Job for Plugin With No CronTab Access
  42. Add function to Simple Twitter Connect to not Tweet pages
  43. Plugin to show a widget hashtag as widget or shortcode? [closed]
  44. SVG Featured image not shown in twitter
  45. Is it possible to use Twitter intents with the post’s image in WordPress?
  46. Pulling Twitter RSS feed not working as expected (fatal error)
  47. Automatically add simple custom buttons for print, Facebook share, & Tweet in Posts [closed]
  48. w3c validation problem – Twitter share button pulling content
  49. Mixing Tweets with Posts
  50. Twitter links in widget don’t work?
  51. Let users share posts via Twitter?
  52. Why is my oembed function modifying Twitter embed?
  53. Twitter shortlink 404 not found [closed]
  54. Permalink doesn’t get displayed in Twitter button (Local WordPress problem?)
  55. How can I replace an oEmbed URL in post with actual embed HTML
  56. Is there a social members only login plugin for WordPress? [closed]
  57. Why Does the WordPress Twitter Tools Plugin give a 500 Internal Server Error?
  58. WP-TweetButton is not displaying the tweet button if this is set to “Manual.” [closed]
  59. How to intergrate wordpress.com with twitter like the way it is with facebook?
  60. Retrieve a value from Yoast SEO to use to set a default twitter card image honoring overrides
  61. How would I use this filter to change the output of the date format to “Twitter time”?
  62. Auto-Tweet if Type is ‘Status’ using OAuth
  63. facebook like, tweet and google+1 buttons inside the loop on home, archive and search pages and missing facebook like buttons
  64. How to get a retweet button on my wordpress.com blog?
  65. How do I get the Twitter Tools widget to display my tweets?
  66. How to replace get_the_excerpt with first N words of post article while stripping html
  67. Need To Change WordPress Meta Tags… Includes wordpress shortcodes
  68. Getting 404 in the Javascript
  69. Twitter Product Cards
  70. Getting Twitter Content on My Blog
  71. WordPress tags as twitter sharer URL hastags
  72. New Twitter API and Twitter count + timeline doesn’t work anymore [closed]
  73. Any advice on customising this twitter feed?
  74. How to install Facebook, Google+, & Twitter LIKE buttons for each individual post at frontpage?
  75. Redirecting URL with Twitter Button API Not Working
  76. Modify code for functions.php with specific twitter user url and hashtags
  77. Timed post and tweet?
  78. Font styling in embedded Twitter feed
  79. Site/Post preview is not working on all social media
  80. Dynamic Twitter card images
  81. Mix Facebook and Twitter feed into custom posts
  82. How to set parameters for a Twitter post using wp_oembed_get (remove rounded borders)?
  83. Do_Shortcode not working for Embed any tweet
  84. Insert post programmatically and decide to tweet or not to tweet
  85. Detect each active instance of a widget
  86. How to Pull Out Twitter Summary Data in other areas of my template?
  87. How to keep sharing stats after creating 301 redirects?
  88. How can I make the Twitter Tools plugin hyperlink every link?
  89. How to correct Error: message on website Twitter Feed
  90. Twitter List Tweets and Delicious Links as Posts
  91. Create Mashable Follow-like Facebook, Twitter login/connect?
  92. Using jQuery toggle() in WordPress post to show/hide Tweet button?
  93. Strip Twitter Username from Profile Field with URL and Save to New Profile Field
  94. Internet Explorer seperating lists differently in Twitter Widget Pro than all other browsers [closed]
  95. Publishing tweets from wordpress [closed]
  96. WordPress Plugin for Maps of specific Tweets? [closed]
  97. Add a twitter feed to my WordPress website
  98. Serious social interaction [closed]
  99. Publish post facebook page & twitter automatically [closed]
  100. Adding custom avatar field to comments
error code: 523