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Someone I follow retweeted it on to my timeline and now the website keeps hanging. Does anyone know how it happened?

Interesting looking at the API response. If you do a signed API call to https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/show/926903967027785728... - you can see that there's no URI returned in the JSON.

Here's a paste of the full response https://pastebin.com/MNRjjx45

Note that VSCode doesn't completely display lines of this length ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/27380 ), and Kate struggles as well

Yet another reason why Sublime Text is a great editor compared to Atom/VSCode.