> At some point, I hit a threshold where the DNS server could no longer keep up and broke. As I later found out, this caused a ~15 minute campus wide outage for managed computers as no computer could make the DNS lookup in order to mount its network drive. IT politely told me to stop spamming the DNS server after this, so I did.

> How’d IT know it was me? I yapped about it for two weeks!

You know, I think maybe the first part is how they found out about you, rather than that they just happened to follow you on social media :)