It’s fascinating to see the recent Twitter disruptions and wonder if they were genuinely caused by a DDoS attack or if the platform simply collapsed under the weight of its own inadequacies. From my perspective, it seems more likely that the issues stemmed from internal problems rather than a targeted attack. With significant staff cuts and infrastructure downsizing under Elon Musk’s leadership, Twitter might just be struggling to handle normal traffic, not some external onslaught. The situation makes me question whether these so-called “DDoS” problems are really just a reflection of the platform’s deteriorating stability.
DDoS attack on Twitter, when Musk was going to interview Trump
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#2Don't know what it is
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#3excuses for bad tech. Elon is liar
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#4Anyone who doesn't like Trump wants as many people to hear his unhinged rambling as possible so I don't understand why enemies would DDoS them.
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#5Those 281 H1b engineers are so screwed
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#6I use twitter a fair bit and haven't seen any disruptions - though I use it only in browser, maybe the app has seen some. It seems like only the Spaces part with Trump was overrun and not working which does make Musk's claim seem sus but they got it rather quickly working anyway. Ever since Musk took over there has been an insane amount of doomposting about twitter but it's still going fine.
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#7Anyone who doesn't like Trump wants as many people to hear his unhinged rambling as possible so I don't understand why enemies would DDoS them.
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Re: DDoS attack on Twitter, when Musk was going to interview Trump
#8I use twitter a fair bit and haven't seen any disruptions - though I use it only in browser, maybe the app has seen some. It seems like only the Spaces part with Trump was overrun and not working which does make Musk's claim seem sus but they got it rather quickly working anyway. Ever since Musk took over there has been an insane amount of doomposting about twitter but it's still going fine.
I think the doomposting is people trying to manufacture a narrative they wish for. Like they want it of fail so they are repeating things about it nonstop to make that its reputation. It’s sad that tribalism goes so far even here on HN.
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#9excuses for bad tech. Elon is liar
Your statement about an excuse for bad tech is factually wrong.
The X edge teams were indeed responding to quite a number of well coordinated ddos attempts. Arelion, GTT, and a number of other carriers have been assisting in blackholing.
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#10"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-elo...
Didn't the same thing happened to livestream for Desantis?