#twitter outage

[androgynouswonderlandpersona]

TWITTER IS DOWN AGAIN

[mudwerks]

(via 'Garbage' to blame Ukraine for massive Twitter outage, experts say)

However, Ciaran Martin, professor at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government told the BBC that explanation was "wholly unconvincing" and "pretty much garbage."

Prof Martin - former head of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre - says it looks as if Twitter was targeted by what's known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, where hackers flood a server with internet traffic to prevent users from connecting to a website.

"It's not that sophisticated - it's a very old technique," Mr Martin told Radio 4's Today programme.

"I can't think of a company of the size and standing internationally of Twitter that's fallen over to a DDoS attack for a very long time," he added.

He said the incident at Twitter "doesn't reflect well on their cyber security."

[lazy-cat-corner]

Once again, tumblr defied the doctor’s life expectancy and outlived another platform.

Pretty sure she also outlived the doctor.

[kurosurintomasu]

[bucca2]

DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD

[nacrelysis]

elon musk you had one job. ONE JOB.

KEEP TWITTER RUNNING.

HOW ON EARTH DID YOU FUCK THIS UP SO BADLY

[iron-cretin]

amazing, so this is why he's suddenly claiming he's decided to limit everyone

[reelscrollsfilmco]

Hmmm... so me and Caleb (our dm) were theorizing why Musk is a moron and we came to theorize this: perhaps he isn't. Perhaps he is ostracizing the public so that it can become a social network for the rich and connected so that he can maximize profit.

He makes little to no money on the public, but privatizing the whole thing for the wealthy does make him money and prevents the expensive overhead of running and entirely free social network. By ostracizing the poorer masses they open up the space to become only something for the rich. Ultimately it's still really shitty for those of us rehomed, but perhaps this is what they wanted all along. I mean, since they're all about profit it would make sense that excluding the public in favour of privatized self important egotists makes sense. They get to take an established app with all the infrastructure built in and turn it private with just a few changes.

This is far easier than establishing a brand new app. In addition, ads don't go as far as they used to, and since laws about selling people's data takes that revenue stream away, privatizing for the rich is the only way to really make it profitable. It's super underhanded and it's a disgusting move to make, but if it goes the way ue's trying to push it he might not be as stupid as we're all accusing him of. I'm seriously hoping it's sheer stupidity though :/