Why would you believe anything Musk says? He can safely get around being truthful because an organic user traffic outage would look exactly like a DDOS to an e

Why would you believe anything Musk says? He can safely get around being truthful because an organic user traffic outage would look exactly like a DDOS to an end user. He had the same outages when he brought Desantis on (last year? two years ago? I forget). It's not like he'll ever release a post-mortem, we'll never see if Libtard420 (/s) spun up a million boxes from a digitalocean cidr block and nuked twitters video endpoints vs. twitter just getting slammed globally once it started. He fired all of the previous (great) engineers at twitter. I find it much more probable the systems just went down due to load. This is my job for a big advertising company that does far more load than twitter ever did. We scale on load. We'd be a failure if we had to cap the audience that saw our advertisements. We do something like 20-40x (tens of billions req a minute) the amount of load on Black Friday/Christmas every year and don't even need to tweak anything. IIRC Musk brought everything from the "cloud" (twitter was AWS iirc) to I guess some in-house datacenter where they couldn't quickly scale as they're dealing with physical hardware themselves. I'm not sure if they even have a CDN in front of them nowadays. I quit paying attention to their tech. IIRC their video service used to be provided by another vendor that Musk wound up getting in trouble with because he stopped paying them or something along those lines. I believe they stopped using that service? edit: Oh, Periscope. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-building-live-video-service-tucker-carlson-2023-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-building-l...