I can’t say it’s been confirmed as a total lie, but it certainly hasn’t been confirmed by any supporting evidence. There is only Skum’s, a reflexive bullshitter, own statement. That’s it. No big attacks in the US yesterday. Twitter ran fine.
He done fucked up again because: he has shown before that he can’t make a livestream happen; and he’s fired half of Twitter.
All right, who used the last of the eye bleach and didn’t buy more? Gah.
… Emiliano De Cristofaro, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Riverside, told Newsweek that he highly doubted a DDoS was responsible.
“There is no evidence of any malicious activity happening but more importantly no other functionality was affected,” he said.
“It is much more likely that the platform just couldn’t handle a sudden big spike in the number of users trying to stream,” the professor added.
NetBlocks, a nonprofit that monitors cybersecurity, said in an online post that the incident was understood to be due to a server issue, though later reshared a post which stated that “any sufficiently overloaded server is indistinguishable [from a DDOS attack].”
Wasn’t it closer to three quarters?
You’re right of course.
I could do a tech billionaire retcon and say I meant half the tech people as he seems to have sacked the entire content moderation teams for a bunch of languages. But no. He fired loads, loads more than half and now can’t even run a livestream in audio only.
Ordinary companies deal with DDoS attacks from his chums daily btw. Just constant, endless shit.
Mr. Trump will burp this as a huge victory. He will probably say that a crowd wanted to hear what he had to say.
I mean it was a big spike by Twitter’s standards. Not a blip for a large platform though. Think TikTok would have even noticed that happening?
Actually I want people to think about that a lot. I want people to understand why they should stop giving money to this fool!
Given (1) the assumption that there won’t be one, and (2) Musk had already endorsed Trump (plus Musk’s explanation about having a conversation, because the standard Q&A is too adversarial), how is this event not a campaign donation on Musk &/or X’s part?
Ouais ! Et son cerveau est plein de vers ! Beurk !
This is great, he’s off to Venezuela if he loses.
He also sounds like Daffy Duck in this clip.
Trump says he’ll flee to Venezuela if he loses the election and invites Elon to visit him
I guess Argentina is no longer the haven of choice for people in their situation?
Um, maybe blur it out for the faint of the heart.
Thank you for finding and posting the stuff like this. I lack the intestinal fortitude required for such a task, and I salute yours and you.
… as his first stop, at least
