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.
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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.
Except with a modern AAA game, they have an understanding on how things work. This clown doesn't.
Oh, my sweet child, no they don't xP
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.
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)
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.
how many russian twitter bots in one place does it take to crash twitter?
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.
Its probably just... a distributed amount of viewers requesting more bandwidth than they expected/knew how to serve.
So a Group Hug of Death.
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
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.
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.
A live stream with tens of thousands of simultaneous viewers is, almost by definition, a scheduled DDOS. Even Apple struggled for years to get it right for their WWDC Keynote events back when they were live.
I didn't think Twitter Spaces was anything but audio, though? Like they're not streaming 8k video over here like Apple, it's likely garbage phone audio. No?
Did Trump tell him how rude it was to start 42 minutes late due to technical issues, or is Musk a white man?
Trump didn't cause it, so he had no need to project.
Damn, your girl's got moves!
But are those Indian moves or Black moves?
Yes
Not white moves either way
Could it be because Xitter is made up of spaghetti code hosted on cheapest possible hardware?
Absolutely.
Sidenote: I keep seeing "xitter" being used, is it safe to assume it's pronounced "shitter"?
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.” —
I admit, you had me till the '900,000' people part
“Trump is slurring in a way I've never heard from him before,” remarked podcaster Susan Simpson. “Elon sounds like this is maybe the third or fourth time he's had a conversation with a fellow human.”
This is my favorite comment
That's what happens when the first thing you do is fire all the Site Reliability Engineers... Apparently he stack-ranked engineers based on most lines of code (SREs generally write less code and even often delete code) and fired the lower end of that scale.
Elegant, efficient code? Who needs that shit?
Could it be that Lonnie is a lying liar? No, not the man who has promised "full self driving" for like a decade and still hasn't delivered it… He's not a lying liar, right?
Lonnie lies like a mother fucker. But not as much as the orange shithead.
By Twitter's standards, the "DDoS" is probably just a lot of people tuning in.
Seems like a regular thing happening on Xitter nowadays. Another day, another heavy load that doesn't flush, I guess.
lol
Why is this so familiar? Didn't he already try and fall to prop up another Republican ghoul the same way? I wonder what the last engineer not fired at Twitter is doing. They still haven't fixed Twitter's livestreaming.