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 threadCraryDec 29, 2022
@mmasnick has it been officially confirmed that he was unplugging servers? Sounds right, but I trust your expertise more than my gut!
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Dec 29, 2022
@crary i mean, right from the horse gifter's mouth:
Show threadDreaming of dad jazz.
@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..
Dec 29, 2022 at 4:09amTusky
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