Have you seen popular games on launch day falling down on auth flows? That's largely just HTTPS text connections via REST. Now add in a binary data stream on top of that (likely RPC, but I'm not sure of Twitter's implementation).
All that said, Twitter dropped the ball due to Musk's arrogance. Instead of having limited issues, it was riddled with issues as a result of him firing all the people that could have reduced the issues. As was foretold by our ancestors.
I just wish GitHub wasn't part of MS anymore.
I also don't want Gitlab owned by another megacorp.
Something funded by the government but ran by a public org would be ideal.
It's not just the data transfer. It's also number of connections and the combined load. Scaling theese kind of things can be a nightmare for games doing an auth workflow on launch day and that's largely just text connections over REST.
Musk was an idiot and fired everybody that could have helped prevent/minimize the impact.
Maximum Enshiffication continues.
Such a cool dad move.
Many reporters use:
Stop propping up that fascist cesspool.
Stop. Using. Technofacist. Twitter.
It took me a bit of morning brain fog processing to understand the context. But then it hit me.
Tim Walz has a history of delighting and helping people, and the excitement of the people (especially the kids) in the room we elated and the picture captured that.
In the other picture, the people that were being "helped' (again the kids) looked unimpressed and even a little letheragic.
It's a comparison of how one person & their party can excite & delight while the other person & their party depress.
There was a ton of ambiguity in the initial statement. I had to read the statement twice and look at the pictures for a moment before I understood the context in my daily morning brain fog. So I don't fault them for asking their initial question.
What I do fault them for is doubling down after the explanations.
I was hoping it was Kelly or Walz over Shapiro.
To me, as Bernie Sanders flavored "Socialist", Walz is an amazing pick.
However I had a preference for Kelly since I strongly believe that his history as an astronaut and his popularity in a state like AZ could help drive a lot of independent voters to the Democrat's platform come November.
All that said, progressives know that progressive policy is also extremely popular when messaged broadly and communicating the benefits to the invidual and country. Hopefully Kamama & Walz use their experince with their A* campaign team to drive that home. And then fucking deliver.
~200,000 simultaneous connections vs ~2,000,000 simultaneous connections is a world of difference.
Additionally, while a successful Zoom call, it still had issues, with a dedicated Zoom support team.
Nothing about either of these events were "easy" or "fine".
The big difference is that Musk is an arrogant idiot and decided to roll-his-own streaming service with a reduced headcount and a product that that is lacking proper load balancing, reservations, & scaling through load testing & real world tests scenarios that ramp up scale over time.