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The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Musk claims there was a DDOS attack on X โ€” but The Verge is told there was not.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's not just the data transfer. It's also number of connections and the combined load. Scaling theese kind of things can be a nightmare for games doing an auth workflow on launch day and that's largely just text connections over REST.

Musk was an idiot and fired everybody that could have helped prevent/minimize the impact.