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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.
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.
It probably isn't a DDOS. Its probably just... a distributed amount of viewers requesting more bandwidth than they expected/knew how to serve.
how many russian twitter bots in one place does it take to crash twitter?
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.
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.