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Kamala Harris's Statement On Trump's Twitter Interview (lemmy.ml)
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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 211 points 4 weeks ago

The interview, which was hosted on X Spaces and scheduled to begin at 8PM ET Monday night, crashed immediately and didn’t begin until 42 minutes later.

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18 minutes after the conversation was supposed to begin, Musk claimed that X was the target of a “massive DDOS attack” that had made it impossible for the Space to proceed as planned.

The rest of X appears to be working normally, however, and a source at the company confirmed to The Verge that there wasn’t actually a denial-of-service attack. Another X staffer said there was a “99 percent” chance Elon was lying about an attack

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24219121/donald-trump-elon-musk-interview-x-twitter-crashes

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 112 points 4 weeks ago

claimed that X was the target of a “massive DDOS attack”

That's such a stupid lie too. A much better one would be "so many people were trying to watch it and it crashed!"

With all the bullshit these people spew on a daily basis you'd think they'd be better at it...

[-] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

In which case it was a distributed denial of service. But it wasn't an intentional attack, we wanted to hear you dig your graves more, it was the result of your shitty software not able to hold any kind of load.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 4 weeks ago

Wikipedia has an entry on it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect

While I'm not sure that a flash crowd is a DoS, it is extremely similar to a DDoS attack making it difficult to detect.

I think a flash crowd is distinct from a DoS, tho. Even if flash crowds can often be initially categorised as a DDoS

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