What do you think are the chances this is related to them having trouble paying their cloud services bills? That's the first thing that came to mind when I saw that was happening, the reports of how the cloud services contracts were among the ones Elon decided to stop paying once revenue shrunk.
@mmasnick @Biohazardous Musk is notoriously cheap, and Twitter is broke, so likely it paid for some lowest tier for the new quarter. And then they broke the clients with their self-inflicted DDoS and blew through their entire low-budget third-quarter data cap within a day or so.
Attached: 1 image Lest anyone doubt that Twitter was idiotic enough to release code that would cause a race condition and result in its own users executing a DDOS attack on it, here's the network console readout from Firefox showing all the network requests blasting away. Of course I immediately closed out my connection because I'm a good person. Oh, but it's the weekend and Evil Sheldon is in control so I kept the party going for a while since Twitter insisted on it. #TwitterDown #Twitter #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS
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