Mike Masnick ✅Dec 29, 2022

So it took four days from "whee, look at me unplugging important servers, and everything's still working..." to the first major Twitter crash of the Musk era. Cool. Cool.

Meanwhile, one of Musk's biggest fans in the comments in Techdirt was screaming at me about how it's now "fact" that I was 100% wrong about him and Twitter.

Show threadCrary
@mmasnick has it been officially confirmed that he was unplugging servers? Sounds right, but I trust your expertise more than my gut!
Dec 29, 2022 at 2:12amWeb
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Dec 29, 2022
@crary i mean, right from the horse gifter's mouth:
Show threadKeith Dec 29, 2022
@mmasnick @crary Okay, but has it been confirmed by a trustworthy source?
Show threadVoronDec 29, 2022
@crary @mosheroperandi @mmasnick 😂
Show threadNick "Neiloch" Dec 29, 2022
@mmasnick @crary Granted but Musk is the real life "unreliable narrator" of Twitter
Show threadDreaming of dad jazz.Dec 29, 2022
@mmasnick @crary someone pointed out that it's entirely possible in a modern architecture to unplug a "critical rack of servers" and have that load shift elsewhere automatically..
Show threadDreaming of dad jazz.Dec 29, 2022
@mmasnick @crary it's entirely possible that he finally ran out of "critical racks"
Show threadDreaming of dad jazz.Dec 29, 2022

@mmasnick @crary right.. Here it is.. Hat tip to @rodhilton

https://mastodon.social/@rodhilton/109569309645690998

Show threadTravis Newton 👨‍💻Dec 29, 2022
@mmasnick @crary And according to @elonjet when he posted this matches up to when he was in Sacramento - where NTT is (one of Twitter’s data centers). So it’s plausible he was taking a tour of Twitter’s suite and randomly unplugged something then got on his phone and was like “it still works lol” since it’s clear he doesn’t understand how high availability and redundant systems work.