It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

OpenStars, 10 months ago

From what I've read, he apparently declined to pay his bill to Google Cloud Platform (he also was not paying rent at his... headquarters? one of them, I dunno? in Colorado), so then they cut him off - which he apparently did not expect - so he unilaterally instituted an emergency rate-limit for all posts yesterday, which in turn caused embedded Twitter feeds to constantly keep trying to connect and get the content that it always has been able to before, and since it could not connect it just kept trying, over & over, over & over, over & over, over & over, over & over again.

He DDOS'd HIMSELF!:-P

What a stable genius he is showing himself off to be... /s

Though still smarter than Huffman, who followed him blindly despite the circumstances being totally different - like on the off-chance that Musk actually had a thought & a plan somewhere buried in there, what is Huffman's excuse for following him? It reminds me of a particular Star Wars quote by Ben Kenobi actually... :-D

disposabletentacle, 10 months ago

It reminds me of a particular Star Wars quote by Ben Kenobi actually..

Musk and Spez are riding single-file, to hide their numbers? My god, there's more of them??

xuxebiko, 10 months ago

LMFAO!

ChargingDoorman, 10 months ago

Again? They had a similar bug a few months ago when they were rolling out tokens. Its almost like they don't have anyone left who remembers rolling out this feature earlier 🤣

ThatOneKirbyMain2568, 10 months ago

It amazes me that people are still insisting on using this platform like everything's fine.

From what I've heard, a bunch of Twitter users have been flocking (pun not intended) to Mastodon. Glad to see that more people are finally ditching Elon Musk's circus show.

Madison_rogue, 10 months ago

There's some real fallout from it though. I ditched Twitter probably a decade ago, as soon as I picked up Reddit, honestly. But I do have a friend of mine that's an author, and Twitter has been instrumental in promoting his books and establishing his fan community. There are so many people like that, and for their sake it's a damn shame Musk has decimated Twitter.

EffectivelyHidden, 10 months ago

Bingo.

"Just switch to Bluesky or Mastadon" doesn't work for artists who have spent years building up their customer base on Twitter.

wagesj45, 10 months ago

It's a hard lesson to learn, but putting your eggs in one basket sometimes leads to losing all your eggs. Monolithic social media servers are attractive due to their ease of use, but this is the risk.

ThatOneKirbyMain2568, 10 months ago

Of course, this is a very fair point. Ideally, people would be willing to leave Twitter to join the artists, authors, etc. they follow. But unfortunately, many just won't care enough about Elon's buffoonery to ditch the convenience that Twitter provides.

However, I think there's a middleground between staying on Twitter and moving all operations to Mastodon. People could establish a profile on Mastodon for the people that do care so that those people can move knowing that they'll still be able to see their favorite artists. Unfortunately, I imagine this is more difficult to do with Elon's ban on links to alternatives (unless that's been reversed at some point).

OpenStars, 10 months ago

I've never used Twitter so take this with a grain of salt, but supposedly it really is more difficult to connect to the people that you want to follow, when they all split up and go their separate ways on different instances, and especially when they decide that they will remain inside the walled garden. To be clear, if the people that you want to "follow" are using Twitter, then you also must use Twitter if you want to view their content, and all the more so if you want to interact back with them.

And now we'll see similarly with Reddit too I imagine: if the vast majority of the community remains there, so like official announcements are only given to the Reddit community (hehe, not Minecraft though:-P), then you would need to keep a Reddit account unless you are okay with just walking away from it all entirely.

So there really is a significant cost to leaving, depending on what you are trying to do. It reminds me of the situation with Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux, where nobody likes how heavy-handed The Man is being, but it's such an enormous cost to try to do anything else - like when the entire city of Munich Germany decided to leave Windows and go to open-source Linux, but got too frustrated with all the crashing and unreliability, so then decided to go back to Windows again. Nowadays they reportedly run both side-by-side, and while I'm sure there are all sorts of "details" involved in all of that back-and-forth switching, the end point remains: if everyone else does one thing, it is much harder to have to blaze your own trail.

yiliu, 9 months ago

This is from July 1st, though. Old news at this point.

VulcanSphere, 10 months ago

Muskification in action, the bird is struggling...

Chozo, 10 months ago

There's something strangely poetic about this.

hiyaaaaa23, 10 months ago

Lmao.

wave_walnut, 10 months ago

I am also an amateur, so I am in no position to laugh at the Twitter engineers' blunder. I sincerely hope that Eron is now supporting their struggles materially and spiritually rather than shooting them in the back.

orcrist, 10 months ago

Oh the mistake is all on Elon. He decided to fire a lot of his core staff and he's paying the price now. Also, you are in a great position to laugh at the engineers. They're making the kind of mistakes as professionals that you and I might make as amateurs, and that is comedic.

zalack, 10 months ago

"The shootings will continue until impressions improve"

Rabbithole, 10 months ago

I was reading about this over on hackernews, and goddamnit it's hilarious.