One of my first jobs was working at a fast food place, and my first night on the job, I was taking the trash out, and the thing tipped over, spilling it all over the parking lot, and I just said "fuck this" and went home and never came back. If I worked at Twitter right now, I'd be thinking about doing something like that again.
His claim is that it's a DDOS attack.<p>Not my area of engineering, so forgive me, but: is an external DDOS a plausible threat for competently engineered public service in 2025? I kind of got the impression those were solved problems in practice?
Better link for tracking: <a href="https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/" rel="nofollow">https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/</a>
Why does HN sometimes de-duplicate submissions, but not others? This other submission is the exact same link, but 3 minutes earlier:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322397">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322397</a>
Is there any source for this being an attack other than Elon's tweet. I hope reporters aren't just taking his word for this given all of his past lies.
It's giving me problems and has been very inconsistent for about 90 minutes to 2 hours at this point. I got a partial refresh of my feed, but a lot is not working. The Grok AI appears down as well.