Comment on The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster
bluemellophone@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoA live stream with tens of thousands of simultaneous viewers is, almost by definition, a scheduled DDOS. Even Apple struggled for years to get it right for their WWDC Keynote events back when they were live.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
I didn’t think Twitter Spaces was anything but audio, though? Like they’re not streaming 8k video over here like Apple, it’s likely garbage phone audio. No?
odelik@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
It’s not just the data transfer. It’s also number of connections and the combined load. Scaling the kind of things can be a nightmare.
Evotech@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Audio is fine afaik
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
What does “fine” mean?
Evotech@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Lukter comparable to most streaming sites