- every other spaces event that was run at the same time was unaffected. - no other part of the website was impacted in any way whatsoever.

Aren’t these last two an argument FOR a ddos attack? It seems reasonable to assume we’re there a ddos attack at that time it would be against the Elon/Trump stream explicitly.

I’d like to see an explanation of how that is even possible to get that level of targeting without knowing the connection details of either Elon or Trump. The rest of the attack surface is surely shared infrastructure with the rest of the website.

So no I think it was just a straight up technical failure on their end.

How did it clear up?

> People who worked at Twitter said it was bullshit

No, we have no idea from The Verge article whether the sources are even qualified to make such statements or if the statements are even true. In fact on the basis of the 99 percent speculative quote we can disregard the source quotes altogether. I'll say this, I work on far less significant software than X and we get DDOSed all the time.

> every other spaces event that was run at the same time was unaffected.

That's not true, I wasn't even able to load my feed during the initial part of the stream.

You seem to be invested in this topic in a weird and unhealthy way but there is nothing of value here in this comment.

You baselessly accuse journalists of straight up making things up and then go on to give some anecdotal evidence that conveniently nobody can disprove.