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WatDabney ,

So there are only two possibilities - either Vichy Twitter is such a poorly run site that it crashed on its own, or it’s such a poorly run site that it’s not prepared to deal with being DDOSed.

sp3tr4l ,

Its probably fairly straightforward:

Their new format and infrastructure for video hosting was not properly tested, and they did not expect the amount of bandwidth needed to support viewership demand.

Basically, same thing as a modern AAA live service game launch.

It probably isn’t a DDOS. Its probably just… a distributed amount of viewers requesting more bandwidth than they expected/knew how to serve.

InternetUser2012 ,

Except with a modern AAA game, they have an understanding on how things work. This clown doesn’t.

wreckedcarzz ,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, my sweet child, no they don’t xP

NotMyOldRedditName ,

I enjoyed this way more than I probably should have lol.

blackbelt352 ,

I mean, the devs and server techs know what’s going on, its the execs and middle managers that need to get a live service on a shoestring budged to make the shareholders happy that you made them 25% more profit than last quarter.

sp3tr4l ,

I am remembering a lot of AAA games in the past two years that have launched and basically been unplayable for a day to two weeks due to some kind of combination of not enough servers, garbage netcode, or other game breaking bugs.

Elon just went to a different clown college.

A mandatory class at both AAA game dev flavored clown college and blood diamond mines flavored clown college seems to be the art of talking up a whole lot of cool innovative features and then going hugely over budget and development time and then cutting most of those features for a late delivery date.

(And no, I don’t care if the devs are good at their jobs but management fucked them! is the defense for AAA games. Sure, maybe that’s correct on an internal level. Doesn’t really matter for a consumable product. Would be nice if the idiot asshats got laughed out of the industry instead of new car collections, golden parachutes, but thats a whole 'nother discussion)

PwnTra1n ,

how many russian twitter bots in one place does it take to crash twitter?

adarza ,

probably not very many because it only took a single psychotic new owner to do that when he started pulling servers out of a sacramento data center a couple years back, with no engineering and no planning.

sp3tr4l ,

I am still hopeful the Twitter HQ will become a homeless shelter one way or another: Looks like Musky boy just hasn’t been paying rent, so, fingers crossed.

blackbelt352 ,

Its probably just… a distributed amount of viewers requesting more bandwidth than they expected/knew how to serve.

So a Group Hug of Death.

suction ,

So they’re applying the Tesla method to Twitter now

xavier666 ,

I remember a year back they just turned “off” their microservice architechture (Musk: “Why are we burning so much money in this microservice?”), or the part which allows for autoscaling as per incoming load. So the servers just reached 100% utilization and crashed.

rsuri ,

Time to bring back the fail whale

sp3tr4l ,

Make it a Starship exploding with dogecoins flying out of it.

SlopppyEngineer ,

Twitter is such a poorly run site

It’s run by the guy that started to unplug servers at night so I’m assuming bad infrastructure

dogsnest ,
@dogsnest@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3205e072-3fad-4f1e-8b72-e9c4cde281a5.gif

downpunxx OP ,

lol

Lemminary ,

Damn, your girl’s got moves!

Ilandar ,

But are those Indian moves or Black moves?

Kowowow ,

Not white moves either way

JWBananas ,
@JWBananas@lemmy.world avatar

Yes

ReallyActuallyFrankenstein ,

Musk repeated the DDOS claim when the Space finally began around 8:40PM ET. “As this massive attack illustrates, there’s a lot of opposition to people just hearing what President Trump has to say,” he said.

So not only is he fabricating the DDOS out of thin air, but he just assumes out of nowhere that it’s politically motivated by the “opposition” to silence Trump - when Trump is vomiting nonsense that blankets the media 24/7 and this would do absolutely nothing to prevent Trump from exposing himself to the unwilling public. Galaxy brain genius logic right there.

floofloof ,

He’s just trying to avoid having to admit that X is an unreliable platform due to him firing all the people that kept it stable. That would mean having to admit his own decisions are not always perfect, and someone of his temperament can’t admit that.

Meron35 , (edited )

X is reeling this morning after its website crashed last night due to an orchestrated attack on its servers during its Elon / Trump interview. A spokesperson for X said that the attack seemed to have been orchestrated by a foreign state actor. “We are currently looking for a group of roughly 900,000 people who could have carried out such an attack to silence Trump.” The spokesperson said it was clearly a foreign nation. “X couldn’t possibly have failed due to too many concurrent listeners. According to our latest figures, there are only 10 actual people who aren’t bots that still use X, 5 of which are confused and still think it’s Twitter.” Tech experts said that they had never seen such a sophisticated and well organised attempt to flood the servers, using millions of different points of attack. The experts say the attack was highly organised. “In order to get millions of computers to participate at the same time, the perpetrators harnessed social media to encourage people to flood the servers, and overload the website. This was sophisticated stuff.” “They announced their attack day months ago, and then worked methodically to make sure everyone remembered the attack date.” “The perpetrators must have known that no computer server can withstand the load of an entire nation trying to access the same website at the same time on the same day.” —

Asafum ,

I love it! Reads like an onion article lol

downpunxx OP ,

so so tasty https://i.imgflip.com/903v7x.gif

Drunemeton ,
@Drunemeton@lemmy.world avatar

“Kamala HQ retweeted” is chef’s kiss

downpunxx OP ,

"ReTruthed" this was posted by Kamala's team on Trumps social media site about a minute while it was happening, hahahahaha, it's the whole two hands chefs makeout, they had this locked and loaded

floofloof ,

Did Trump tell him how rude it was to start 42 minutes late due to technical issues, or is Musk a white man?

ech ,

Trump didn’t cause it, so he had not need to project.

son_named_bort ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/55b94fa4-1cef-4ebf-a2c6-3e7f09049fd7.gif

MummifiedClient5000 ,

Offtopic, but my son is also named Bort.

Ilandar ,

The F(elon) Musk interview.

TheBat ,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

e-lone skum

nycki ,

Why is this on c/Technology? Musk isn’t twitter and twitter isn’t tech news.

Max_P ,
@Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me avatar

By Twitter’s standards, the “DDoS” is probably just a lot of people tuning in.

downpunxx OP ,

chaser: https://i.imgflip.com/904elv.gif

Lemminary ,

Seems like a regular thing happening on Xitter nowadays. Another day, another heavy load that doesn’t flush, I guess.

gnate ,

Elon tries to crack a smile beneath another shovel load

HipsterTenZero ,
@HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone avatar

lol

Ghostwurm ,
@Ghostwurm@lemmy.ca avatar

Donald didn’t want to do it live

TheBat ,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

Could it be because Xitter is made up of spaghetti code hosted on cheapest possible hardware?

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