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Musk claims there was a DDOS attack on X — but The Verge is told there was not.

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[–] PwnTra1n@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

how many russian twitter bots in one place does it take to crash twitter?

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

probably not very many because it only took a single psychotic new owner to do that when he started pulling servers out of a sacramento data center a couple years back, with no engineering and no planning.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

I am still hopeful the Twitter HQ will become a homeless shelter one way or another: Looks like Musky boy just hasn't been paying rent, so, fingers crossed.