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[–] tamas@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm here for the schadenfreude, but it's horrible PR for Cloudflare to post the traffic graph of one of their customers tanking. And their CEO doing it, no less.

[–] Neon@kbin.social 50 points 1 year ago

It's not a graph of their protection product(s), it's a graph from their DNS-service.
They don't get the Data from Twitter, they get it from the Users

[–] nefarious@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure Twitter is a Cloudflare customer. There's no Cloudflare infrastructure referenced by the DNS entries for twitter.com.

[–] Frog-Brawler@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

DNS Queries don’t care about your silly PR. DNS is king.

[–] trafficnab@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's free widespread advertisement for cloudflare, we're even talking about them right now

[–] SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tbf the more people hear about cloudflare, the less people want to do with them.

[–] Maiznieks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The opposite, they do great things abd they have awesome products. Yes, they are expensive, but good too and you can get good stuff for free too.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

If I were Akamai, I'd be sure that my sales team knew to bring it up casually in conversation with every customer. Can't buy trust, have to earn it, and you can squander it all so easily.

[–] Nitrousoxide@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Twitter isn't their customer friends.