Twitter is such a poorly run site
It’s run by the guy that started to unplug servers at night so I’m assuming bad infrastructure
Comment on The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster
WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
So there are only two possibilities - either Vichy Twitter is such a poorly run site that it crashed on its own, or it’s such a poorly run site that it’s not prepared to deal with being DDOSed.
Twitter is such a poorly run site
It’s run by the guy that started to unplug servers at night so I’m assuming bad infrastructure
Time to bring back the fail whale
Make it a Starship exploding with dogecoins flying out of it.
Vichy Twitter
I’m stealing this! It’s way too good!
I stole it myself, so you’re welcome to it.
I have no idea who originated it, but from the first time I saw it, I haven’t used anything else. It just so perfectly sums it up.
If that a ref to the French government of Vichy that collaborated with the Nazi regime and actively participated in it’s genocidal project or something else I don’t get ?
Yes - that’s exactly what it is. Vichy Twitter is to historical Twitter as Vichy France was to historical France.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Its probably fairly straightforward:
Their new format and infrastructure for video hosting was not properly tested, and they did not expect the amount of bandwidth needed to support viewership demand.
Basically, same thing as a modern AAA live service game launch.
InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Except with a modern AAA game, they have an understanding on how things work. This clown doesn’t.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh, my sweet child, no they don’t xP
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I mean, the devs and server techs know what’s going on, its the execs and middle managers that need to get a live service on a shoestring budged to make the shareholders happy that you made them 25% more profit than last quarter.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I enjoyed this way more than I probably should have lol.
InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 3 months ago
You really think an AAA game isn’t more capable than a platform owned and run by Musk? They guy who fired everyone that would make sure shit like that worked. Come on man, the sweet child comment is cute but you’re comparing New York City to some bumfuck town in Indiana.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I am remembering a lot of AAA games in the past two years that have launched and basically been unplayable for a day to two weeks due to some kind of combination of not enough servers, garbage netcode, or other game breaking bugs.
Elon just went to a different clown college.
(And no, I don’t care if the devs are good at their jobs but management fucked them! is the defense for AAA games. Sure, maybe that’s correct on an internal level. Doesn’t really matter for a consumable product. Would be nice if the idiot asshats got laughed out of the industry instead of new car collections, golden parachutes, but thats a whole 'nother discussion)
xavier666@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I remember they just turned “off” their microservice architechture, or the part which allows for autoscaling as per incoming load. So the servers just reached 100% utilization and crashed.
PwnTra1n@lemmy.world 3 months ago
how many russian twitter bots in one place does it take to crash twitter?
adarza@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
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 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.
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 3 months ago
So a Group Hug of Death.
rayyy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Xhitters full. Don’t light a match or it will blow - it sucks though.
suction@lemmy.world 3 months ago
So they’re applying the Tesla method to Twitter now