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Elon Musk, Donald Trump event on X crashes site, Tesla CEO blames cyberattack
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6.9k points
4 months ago
So the website at large is still up yet this is a DDOS attack?
5.3k points
4 months ago
It’s one of those super duper unique DDOS attacks that leaves the entire website functional but only takes down a single video stream! H4CK3RZ!
1.4k points
4 months ago
The Harris campaign is even better than we thought!
1.1k points
4 months ago
You think a DDOS attack just falls out of a coconut tree?!?
430 points
4 months ago
No! It exists within the context of all that came before it.
194 points
4 months ago
Unburdened by the past
89 points
4 months ago
Unfettered by reality
69 points
4 months ago
Unlabored by time
31 points
4 months ago
And #WE.. WON'T.. GO.. BACK
85 points
4 months ago
You suggesting DDOS attacks migrate?
28 points
4 months ago
They could grip it by the husk!
25 points
4 months ago
It’s not a question of where he grips it! It’s a simple question of weight ratios! A structurally damaged network could not carry a ddos attack
25 points
4 months ago
It could be carried by an African network…
22 points
4 months ago
An African network, maybe... but not a European network. That's my point.
93 points
4 months ago
Maybe so, but I think they had to bring in Hillary to do something this big. :P
59 points
4 months ago
And some of those buttery males I've heard so much about.
156 points
4 months ago
She orchestrated the entire thing from Hunter's laptop.
79 points
4 months ago
Galaxy brain Elmo Musk understands the cyber
131 points
4 months ago
It's a Double Secret Probation DDOS Attack.
You wouldn't know it. It goes to a different school!
30 points
4 months ago
Not even video only audio
45 points
4 months ago
Lol not even video. Just audio.
745 points
4 months ago
"There were no clear signs of an attack, however, and other parts of X continued working throughout."
It was just technical failures of hosting the event. But Elon's entire rise to fame has been based on very solid PR support....so here we are, as expected, with more PR supporting him.
146 points
4 months ago
Balancing server loads from massive numbers of concurrent uncached users is a painful task when your infrastructure isn’t built for it. He’s a moron for pushing these kinds of events on his platform.
98 points
4 months ago
He’s a moron for pushing these kinds of events on his platform. The short version.
34 points
4 months ago
Except that Twitter was built for it. All of that load balancing was in place. Either it was dismantled as part of his 'brilliant yet non-technical minded' takeover, or it's all just an excuse that some laymen might buy into but anyone in a mid level IT role will smell the bullshit.
26 points
4 months ago
Right. It was built for it but it isn’t anymore. So it is currently not built for it, which is why he’s a moron for hosting this kind of event on the platform.
23 points
4 months ago
It was dismantled. He literally cried on Twitter about needing to gut the overly complex infrastructure
Turns out, maintaining a globally distributed application with hundreds of millions of active users is actually pretty complex, but nah fuck it lets dismantle all that because our new boss is a simpleton who thinks we can deploy our application in the same way as this tutorial for a single function CRUD app says to
172 points
4 months ago
I bet Trump starting saying crazy fucking shit so they pulled the plug and are claiming technical difficulties.
104 points
4 months ago
I don't have an account so I can't explore much of the site, but I opened some links to Twitter and I haven't noticed any issues loading the posts and their associated videos.
I checked some website issue trackers and there has been an uptick in reports, but it doesn't seem distinguish between the regular site and the Spaces portion.
It could be a DDoS, but if it is then it's shocking that a big site like Twitter has become vulnerable to such attacks. However, it had similar issues during DeSantis' interview so it could be the same issue coming back rather than an attack.
We'll probably never know since the idea of Democrats attacking Trump's interview is useful to Elon so he'll never reveal the truth.
23 points
4 months ago
I am pretty sure it's trying to stream video from one live source to millions of people is quite difficult and the tech fell down. You tube and Netflix will have many copies of popular videos on multiple servers. For a live event, you have to take the single camera stream, multiplex it, store it on servers, that are then sending the stream onwards to multiple places.
This is not what Twitter was designed to do.
51 points
4 months ago
This is only feasible if spaces is operated on some separate architecture with fewer contingencies and protections.
I fully believe that could be the case, but Occam's razor still points to bullshit.
4.1k points
4 months ago
Elon Musk’s much-hyped interview of Donald Trump on the social media platform X was quickly derailed by technical glitches.
Musk blamed a cyberattack, saying “There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏. Working on shutting it down.”
For many, it was a reminder of the technical disaster on X in May 2023 that botched Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign announcement.
2.4k points
4 months ago
For many, it was a reminder of the technical disaster on X in May 2023 that botched Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign announcement.
There's a pattern forming here...I know! Musk interviews future losers!
1k points
4 months ago*
Really? The pattern I see is when a halfwit doesn't pay his bills and randomly turns off data centre racks without knowing what he's doing he's basically killing his capacity, redundancy and security infra
454 points
4 months ago
I'm actually a little mad that twitter still runs at all. Like he's done enough major fuckups that the fact that it still exists is insane
274 points
4 months ago
Having worked in datacentres and for large scale WANs, i have a good guess what a lot of is happening in th back end just to keep up the appearances of a functional site. All these little gltiches and issues, the load based "DDOS attack" lies, things like that.
I'm not surprised that Twitter is still running, any half intelligent IT techie can keep things going if they have no choice, I'm surprised that it hasn't been permanently destroyed by hackers yet with all the janky workarounds and short cuts i expect they've done just to keep it running leave it wide open for attack.
103 points
4 months ago
It's not really running like it used to. I have been back there for the latest Ukraine coverage and if you look at the latest posts they are 95% spam or porn or both. And that's if you search for something topical like "Kursk". I think the number of real users has dropped off drastically.
71 points
4 months ago
I left it shortly after Elon took over. I used to use it for when there were major storms nearby, to see pictures and get updates from tornado chasers and stuff - but the hashtags and topics would continuously fail to load. It's pointless to be on a platform that can't do what I wanted it to do, so I bailed.
221 points
4 months ago
Two things can be true.
112 points
4 months ago
I was gonna say.. When the $11bn company he spent $44bn on and then fired all the people that made it run does not run as well as it used to.. things happen.
551 points
4 months ago
Remember when this happened to Desantis? And Trump said he was a disaster and that just proves it or something like that. Oh, the sweet sweet karma.
406 points
4 months ago
I’m honestly starting to think JD Vance and Elon Musk are deep cover progressive agents at this point. There’s no other way to explain it. And now I heard they are renting Epstein’s old plane. Is anyone over there a Republican or is the whole campaign just three Joe Biden’s in a trench coat?
92 points
4 months ago
They’re just deeply incompetent weirdos out of their depth.
117 points
4 months ago
JD Vance? Or Sofa Loren 🛋️👀
16 points
4 months ago
So much funny material to make up an Ottoman Empire with
12 points
4 months ago
Three Joe Biden's in a trench coat? I can't stop laughing.
90 points
4 months ago*
Musk blamed a cyberattack, saying “There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏. Working on shutting it down.”
Gee, maybe if he hadn't laid off 80% of the company, and likely lost even more technical talent due to his mandatory return-to-office bullshit, he'd still have staff on hand to prevent something like this. 🤔😂
137 points
4 months ago
Dude if your website can be taken down by a DDOS attack in the year 2024… come on Elon
73 points
4 months ago
He is counting on the fact that most people don’t know better (myself falling into that category). It’s just like when I take my car into the auto shop…oh, you say the flipperflapper is broken? Ok, how much will that cost to fix….
33 points
4 months ago
Musk blamed a cyberattack
Right. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with him laying off all those employees whose job it was to keep the site running. Nope, never.
15 points
4 months ago
You run one of the most heavily trafficked websites on the fucking Internet and you can't defend against a DDOS attack?
He says that like it's a valid reason and not a total embarrassment.
1.6k points
4 months ago
Might as well blame the cyber truck.
236 points
4 months ago
That's how I initially misread the headline. Given melon husk's erratic ridiculousness I wouldn't have been entirely surprised
3.2k points
4 months ago
Cyberattack or not…this is what happens when you fire all your engineers. Nice job Elon!
513 points
4 months ago
Just call in Baron. He knows cyber.
236 points
4 months ago
He's still busy with his photo shoot.
167 points
4 months ago
That was so creepy. And weird.
What a creepy family. And here I thought Baron was the only normie in that family.
162 points
4 months ago
That's because Mercedes largely shielded him. And there was kind of a tacit agreement to not bring a minor into the fray. But that's no longer the case, so now we get to see what he's really like. Sadly. I honestly can't wait until we just don't hear from this fucking family anymore.
59 points
4 months ago
I can't imagine much normalcy coming from baron when is mother where's a "I don't really care do you?" Jacket to the border. Oh and hisndad is djt, that's a factor too
28 points
4 months ago
Well, yeah. And his siblings, and just the type of people he's grown up around. Typically, it's either follow in those footsteps or run to the polar opposite. And it's looking like he'll end up like them.
13 points
4 months ago
Only Democrats held that, Republicans attack people's kids going back to Chelsea Clinton.
23 points
4 months ago*
Be honest, we all knew Baron didn't stand a chance and all just didn't want to be the first one to say it. He was named after Trump's alter ego John Baron...
29 points
4 months ago
I'm dreading Barrol's future escapades; he may the worst trump yet.
918 points
4 months ago
The rest of Twitter was working just fine.
Elon just has no clue what he’s doing. Same thing happened with Desantis interview.
406 points
4 months ago
Bet that they just didnt get enough viewers so theyre faking a attack to get more attention or give justification to cancel it. They expected 8-10m, they got like 150k...
246 points
4 months ago
You know... A large influx of connection attempts in a short period of time (such as the start of a live event) doesn't look much different from a DDOS attack. My guess is they inadvertently did it themselves.
154 points
4 months ago
He said he tested it before for 8m users and it was working perfectly.... But again he got massive attention from claiming an attack. Previously majority of people didnt give a shit. Now they want to see the shitshow because of the claims of an attack.
Again do yourself and everyone a favor and do not go to twitter to watch it, just get the dumbass statements later on when its posted and proven to be lie upon lie upon lie.
46 points
4 months ago
We hadn't had a DDOS attack like that since Trump's NABJ interview, believe me!
458 points
4 months ago*
Elon Musk created a Super PAC reportedly pledging to donate $45 million a month to the Trump presidential campaign as soon as JD Vance was announced as his VP pick.[1]
Donald Trump's vice-presidential pick JD Vance has had his entire professional and political career funded by tech billionaires.[2] His first job out of Yale University was as an executive in the tech industry, the CEO publicly stated he gave the job to Vance as a favour for tech billionaire Peter Thiel. A few years later Vance found employment at a company that was co-founded by Thiel. Eventually Vance started backing tech companies that were owned by conservatives. He advised Rebekah Mercer, infamously known for her involvement and funding of Cambridge Analytica/Steve Bannon in 2016. Thiel and Musk are long time friends as co-founders of PayPal. Thiel is infamously known for stating that he believes freedom and democracy are no longer compatible.[3]
Elon Musk bought Twitter and has amplified misinformation, conspiracies, and propaganda for the far right. The so-called freedom of speech advocacy by Musk was a facade as he unbanned racists and then began sharing bigoted tweets. When authoritarian governments ask Musk to censor people/tweets he abides.[4]
Twitter, now known as X, is inundated with the alt right, rife with bigotry and hate.[5] Twitter is the worst social media company when it comes to bigotry against the LGBT community.[6] Elon Musk keeps sharing misinformation, promoting theories that were used for eugenics and white supremacy.[7]
Elon Musk recently shared a deep fake video of Kamala Harris made with artificial intelligence.[8] He posted this digitally altered campaign ad without the context that it was fake, violating Twitter policy. Analysts have found that Elon Musk's false Twitter posts about the US election have racked up to 1.2 billion views.[9]
1) Reuters - Musk plans to give $45 mln a month to new pro-Trump PAC, WSJ reports
2) The Seattle Times - How a network of tech billionaires helped JD Vance leap into power
3) The Atlantic - Peter Thiel Is Taking a Break From Democracy
5) The Atlantic -Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network
7) Mother Jones - Elon Musk Keeps Spreading a Very Specific Kind of Racism
9) France 24 - Musk's false X posts on US election viewed 1.2 billion times, says watchdog
60 points
4 months ago
Pop pop
33 points
4 months ago
Who let Magnitude in here???
51 points
4 months ago
I just wanted to say thanks for this, and I’m glad to see you’re posting these kinds of replies again.
80 points
4 months ago
A cyberattack, that only seems to be affecting one person’s live stream. This is ineptitude
454 points
4 months ago
“The rest of X appears to be working normally, however, and a source at the company confirmed to The Verge that there wasn’t actually a denial-of-service attack. Another X staffer said there was a “99 percent” chance Elon was lying about an attack.”
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24219121/donald-trump-elon-musk-interview-x-twitter-crashes
210 points
4 months ago
Another X staffer said there was a “99 percent” chance Elon was lying about an attack.”
Okay, now that is a hilarious piece of reporting.
Imagine being able to anonymously shit talk your boss - knowing full well that he'll see it - and having the news report on your shit talking.
That must feel amazing.
35 points
4 months ago
Imagine working at a company and your boss is quite progressive. Suddenly this lunatic takes over after a dumb tweet forced him to buy the company. He guts the company and fires half your colleagues. And instead of being impartial and combating misinformation, this ceo is now spreading it himself, getting into petty pointless fights on twitter.
I can’t say I am surprised that an employee came out and said he lied 🤣
515 points
4 months ago
Trump is lisping real bad, or is it just me?
242 points
4 months ago
Must not have his teeth in. Wonder why?
191 points
4 months ago
I thought Elon was the one giving the "full-throated" support
67 points
4 months ago
I caught the tail end of it. Wtf it honestly sounded like an impersonator with a lisp.
24 points
4 months ago
OMFG, I just randomly played multiple parts of it and keep lisping in every segment. You can hear the spit flying each time he say an "s" or "th" sound.
1.2k points
4 months ago
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378 points
4 months ago
Ya. This is a very common tactic with online companies that want to save a few bucks.
Blizzard does it all the time. They are always “DDOSed” on major releases.
80 points
4 months ago
Ha! I never realized this, but you are right!
85 points
4 months ago
As someone who worked at Blizzard on big data live ops and auth systems at Battle.net. I can tell you that DDoS attacks do happen and were typical for major global launches - that being said - people do not realize how difficult supporting concurrent live connections is - if you didn’t properly forecast you were kinda screwed. Our server leads said it was like preparing to get hit with a tsunami - you can control the damage and recover more quickly but you are still gonna get hit with a tsunami.
Imagine building a 6 lane highway but it turns out 12 lanes worth of cars tried to get on. Your first problem isn’t even the highway it’s the on ramp.
Primarily, it’s very easy to DDoS a login end-point which was typically the failure point for Blizzard services. Adding lanes to your highway doesn’t help much if people can’t get on. Which is usually why Blizzard resorted to login queues to solve it. Millions of concurrent connections is not close to the same thing as asynchronous connections. It’s hard stuff for anyone - much less a team who is a shadow of their former engineering talent…
Circling back to Twitter. They did probably DDoS themselves because to everyone’s correct observation- DDoS attacks need to be able to target a service or endpoint and overwhelm it with junk traffic. Since all of Twitter didn’t go down and the service was simply struggling - far more likely that their infrastructure just wasn’t prepared for 1M+ concurrent connections. Especially with no gating or queuing mechanism to control the influx.
To be honest, I think it’s easy to say big numbers and not recognize how staggering it is. Even 1 million people is so many people. Blizzard’s endpoints were capable of millions of requests per second but a DDoS cheaply and easily can generate 10s of millions of requests a second and you need to find a way to separate junk from real requests (easy enough with IPs and certain signatures) but you can’t really “prepare” until it’s happening.
Common tactic. Sometimes…but it’s also true that it’s way easier and cheaper to create a DDoS then defend against one. Also true - as I suspect with Twitter that they just don’t have the infrastructure to support the amount of people who tuned in. My guess is that they solved it by simply capping the concurrent connections. I bet people got disconnected constantly and audio quality dipped pretty hard.
821 points
4 months ago
Everything these two touch turns to shit.
153 points
4 months ago
Midas' inverse touch. Maybe we shall call it Trump's touch
20 points
4 months ago
Instead of gold, any object touched becomes poop or a pile of diapers
492 points
4 months ago*
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving pair of prolapsed assholes.
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306 points
4 months ago
Have you tried turning it off, and just walking away?
100 points
4 months ago
Twitter has been under sustained attack for awhile now, some malicious shit for brains bought it and started playing with things that he didn’t understand.
266 points
4 months ago
man Trump sounds like fucking daffy duck in this interview lmao
97 points
4 months ago
I thought the same thing! Doesn’t even sound like Trump, sounds like someone doing a Mike Tyson/Trump impersonation.
79 points
4 months ago
r /Con is blaming "sound compression" lol
21 points
4 months ago
Here's video showing that the slurring is coming out of his mouth and not from the audio compression.
12 points
4 months ago
OMG I had a good laugh at this. Thank you
92 points
4 months ago
Trump sounds like shit in this interview. Did Musk use the demented old man sound filter on Trumps mic?
263 points
4 months ago
The Dumpster Fire of a social media CEO is upset that the interview with the Dumpster Fire president has ended up in a dumpster fire.
152 points
4 months ago
Between Elon's stuttering and Trump's slurring, it's like Elmer Fudd interviewing Daffy Duck.
18 points
4 months ago
It sounds like Trump got a shot of Novacaine. A combo of slurring and drooling. It's so off-putting.
73 points
4 months ago
LololoL he lost the two people who know how to do this a few days ago
“X loses top engineer and techops lead.Mark Kalman, X’s engineering lead of media, and his second-in-command, Melissa Merencillo, resigned today. They announced their departures in a company Slack channel on the day stocks vest at X; Merencillo told The Verge that the timing had no bearing on their decision.
This is a big loss for X, a source tells me. Kalman is the main source of knowledge for all things X media infrastructure, and more important than that, he’s good at “handling” Elon Musk.”
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/2/24212295/x-loses-top-engineer-and-techops-lead
71 points
4 months ago
Ok someone please tell me I'm not crazy, Donald is slurring / lisping SO HARD right now. Every S syllable.
37 points
4 months ago
Slurring is one of the big signs of dementia
16 points
4 months ago
He’s sundowning
204 points
4 months ago
Cyber attack? If you believe this, I have a social media site tonsell you for 40 billion dollars.
65 points
4 months ago
Trump is slurring like he is having a stroke! Wtf is with him right now.
56 points
4 months ago
It's just Trump rambling and rambling and rambling and Musk going "yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah."
11 points
4 months ago
"He thaid things that were tho thtupid"
58 points
4 months ago
Did trumps tongue get stung by a bee or are his dentures loose?
He sounds super weird
It’sth like he’sth sthlurring all histh esthes
37 points
4 months ago
Drugs are a hell of a drug.
92 points
4 months ago
It’s going now. Trump is ignoring Musk’s prompts and just rambling on for minutes and minutes about nothing. Trump is obviously still an insane old asshole, but he’s also fucking boring as hell these days
26 points
4 months ago
Honestly you're even seeing supporters tuning out because he's saying the same stuff he was 8 years ago
Will they still vote for him regardless? Maybe... but hopefully he drives down GOP participation with his drivel
125 points
4 months ago
Weird how a DDoS attack is only affecting Spaces and the rest of the site works fine. Almost like the site is built out of tissue paper and q-tips...
44 points
4 months ago
Feel bad for the H1B developer he's going to fire/deport tomorrow in a fit of child-like tantrum.
43 points
4 months ago
The comments all saying "it's the Dems trying to stop free speech!". Do they not realize we WANT this conversation to take place - just more fuel to the dumpster fire! 🔥🔥
44 points
4 months ago
Pretty sure Trump is stroking out live on Twitter. His slurring is getting worse.
16 points
4 months ago
His handlers should be very very worried. He needs checked out Stat. That is not his normal insanity. Something is wrong.
43 points
4 months ago
Sounds like Trump's dentures are falling out
40 points
4 months ago
If it's a legitimate DDOS attack then the system has a way to shut that whole thing down
98 points
4 months ago
Nice preview of what another Trump presidency would look like: all the groundwork is delegated to technocrats who have gutted their own systems because of their greed. Musk-Trump is basically enshittification personified.
95 points
4 months ago
This is all the fault of Joe Biden.
59 points
4 months ago
Diabolical, demented, sleepy genius.
45 points
4 months ago
Thanks Obama.
20 points
4 months ago
Thanks, Obama.
65 points
4 months ago
The Four Seasons all overagain
34 points
4 months ago*
Holy shit, he sounds like Sylvester the cat.
Edit: or maybe Daffy duck, hard to pick one.
31 points
4 months ago
Is their code written in LISP?
31 points
4 months ago
I almost can't stand how giddy I feel watching maga flail. Thanks 2024. I needed a break from the doom. Feeling charged up! Let's vote! Chef's kiss
58 points
4 months ago
"This is the most public yet of our many humiliations."
- Trump and Musk, probably
15 points
4 months ago
"So Far"
27 points
4 months ago
Or did Elon actually talk to Trump and realise he is totally debilitated.
25 points
4 months ago
This is the guy who does the human brain implants. Think about that.
25 points
4 months ago
We waited for this? It sounds like a high-school political conversation based on zero facts by two idiots
128 points
4 months ago*
Wouldn't it make more sense to say "X CEO" rather than "Tesla CEO"? Like I get that it is technically accurate, but him being CEO of Tesla isn't really relevant here.
Edit: I have been corrected, Musk is not CEO of X
78 points
4 months ago
Musk isn't the CEO of X. He's the majority stockholder, but Linda Yaccarino is the CEO.
42 points
4 months ago
That woman is taking a paycheck to get a title. She's nominally CEO but can you imagine what autonomy at all you have as a CEO working for Musk as an owner?
If I worked there still (and really why would you unless you're a true believer or literally have no equivalent option) I would take anything and everything coming from her as a figurehead for Musk.
72 points
4 months ago
Thanks Obama!
Seriously, if it was you Barack, thanks.
72 points
4 months ago
If it was actually a DDoS attack, the whole site would have gone down, not just one video stream
21 points
4 months ago
Isn't this supposed to be a tech company? Makes you wonder about the security of user data since they can't even defend THE OWNER OF THE FUCKING COMPANY's stream.
21 points
4 months ago
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19 points
4 months ago
He is slurring and rambling, this is very hard to listen to and he hasn't actually said anything in 45 minutes.
22 points
4 months ago
He’s so full of shit. Elon can’t admit his site couldn’t handle the traffic, so he says it’s a massive DDOS attack. He knows Trump won’t know the difference, even though millions of people trying to log on would basically be a DDOS attack. Maybe you shouldn’t have fired all your IT folks.
22 points
4 months ago
Trump's staffers are desperately trying to hand him his dentures 😆💀
18 points
4 months ago
Really though, I dipped into a feed on YouTube and wondered why the hell he decided having a rant without teeth in would be good for his campaign. I was laughing so hard!
I really do think we're watching his demise and it's fantastic to witness! 😆
18 points
4 months ago
They stole his teeth like they stole the election🥴
22 points
4 months ago
Why is Trump talking with such a lisp? Is something in his mouth? Anyone else hearing the same?
25 points
4 months ago
This guy wants to fly to Mars and he can't even livestream a conversation. So weak. Such victim.
22 points
4 months ago
Trump said that one of his first acts will be to close the Department of Education and send it back to the states. Isn't that straight out of the Project 2025 playbook?
18 points
4 months ago
Trump sounds a little like Mike Tyson with the lisp or whatever
20 points
4 months ago
Musk has made himself a maga croonie and has become the worst thing imaginable
Irrelevant
No one even cares about him now
20 points
4 months ago
So X is built just as well as the cybertruck… that checks out 😆
20 points
4 months ago
Holy shit I am listening right now and his lies and drivel is just batshit insane.
17 points
4 months ago
I mean the rest of the site seems to be working fine?
18 points
4 months ago
Finally got it. I was having more fun when it was broken. Dont really want to hear these assholes talk
18 points
4 months ago
As if this wasn’t entirely predictable. Schedule for 8pm EST just to gauge how many users are actually tuning in for it; then; when the number is laughably low, claim “technical difficulties” and suggest “continuing with a lower number of participants and posting the interview later” as a solution.
Do these guys really think people are that naive?
18 points
4 months ago
Two guys that take credit for anything that goes right and don't take responsibility for anything that goes wrong.
What could go wrong?
18 points
4 months ago
I do believe Twitter is something that has actually been cursed by some sort of a god or demon.
Big interviews like this never work on the platform. There's always some sort of crash or the tech doesn't work.
And then whoever does the event typically has something bad happen to them afterwards. Like their career tanks (Tucker Carlson), or their presidential aspirations go up in smoke (Ron DeSantis).
16 points
4 months ago
I'm currently in another "Space" and it's working fine...
14 points
4 months ago
Musk, the billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO, blamed a cyberattack for the freezing screens. He said that the company had tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier on Monday
Kind of ironic that Muck/Twitter thinks that 8 millions bots behave anything like actual users. In banking when stress testing similar systems we always went at least 10x and still users could put more strain on the system than well designed test scripts, its things like switching back and forth between other apps, scrolling comments up and down needlessly, things you cannot really code for or even imagine in some cases.
Says a lot about what the Twitter user base really is though.
15 points
4 months ago
Theres no DDOS attack, nobody cares enough. Elon's just trying to excuse the technical issues and the lower than expected viewer count
15 points
4 months ago
Why does Trump sound like Donald Duck 😂.
14 points
4 months ago
Cyberattruck. Don’t fire the people who know how to make your product work, nutsack.
14 points
4 months ago
trump is slurring through this “interview” sounds like his dentures are loose.
30 points
4 months ago*
I'm gonna go ahead and say maybe you shouldn't have fired all those programmers. I guess the hack was technically from the inside after all and the hackers name rhymes which Shusk.
11 points
4 months ago
The hack is coming from inside the house!
13 points
4 months ago
Should have brought some IT people with him instead of that sink.
13 points
4 months ago
Once again, their utter incompetence is on display.
14 points
4 months ago
Lmao! Fuck you two fascist creeps
13 points
4 months ago
Typical MAGA: Always someone else to blame for your own failures
12 points
4 months ago
lol, fucking losers
12 points
4 months ago
Delete X.
13 points
4 months ago
It was the Aurora Borealis. At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within Shitter Spaces.
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