DDoS Attack On X (opens in new tab)

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19 pointsFriedPickles1y ago10 comments

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ko_pivot1y ago· 2 in thread

Obviously this could be true, but also could be Musk saving face due to X streaming infra buckling under a heavy volume of legit requests. It’s happened before.

dzhiurgis1y ago

It's a win-win. Either being suppressed of free speech or free speech is so popular that it crashed our favourite site.

ceejayoz1y ago

Yeah, they struggled with a couple hundred thousand viewers when DeSantis tried it.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/25/what-happene...

BoredPositron1y ago· 1 in thread

When we look back at the DeSantis livestream it looks like infra is telling him again it's a ddos instead of fixing the underlying problems. They never get the resources to really fix it... Rinse repeat?

acdha1y ago

We don’t know what they’re telling him. Given how much he overpaid for the service insisting he’d make it incredibly successful by paying people off, it seems like he has invested a significant amount of his ego in the service and I would not trust anything he isn’t saying in a legally-binding context like an SEC filing. Even normal executives hate to admit that they cut too much and he’s far from the median on that score.

standardUser1y ago

I'm not sure why we should believe Musk after this very same platform failed the last time he had a high profile guest. And what platform should be more prepared for denial of service attacks that freaking X??

feyman_r1y ago

The fact that the rest of Twitter is online, Spaces requires logging in, and that their auth is online makes me feel maybe it’s lack of prep and not a DDoS.

Even if it’s a DDoS, proper preparation for an event of thing kind would require mitigation capabilities to be put in place, which apparently weren’t. Feels like excuses either way.

jerojero1y ago

This seems to happen quite frequently. I think every time they've tried to do a "big" event there's been technical problems.

I worry for the payment processor app he is going to launch.

zzzeek1y ago

it's only a DDOS if you consider your own users logging into your poorly managed servers to be the service deniers

ethagnawl1y ago

I imagine more than a few former Twitter infra folks are really enjoying their popcorn right now.

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