The IT Nerd

Earlier today, Twitter was down. As in it wasn’t working for anyone. And this went on for hours. But in the last hour it came back up. And as I type this, it seems to be mostly working. Though its not completely stable. At the time I said that Twitter themselves had not said anything about the outage. But that changed with this:

Now, you have to take anything that Elon says with a grain of salt because he loves to play fast and loose with the truth. But let’s pretend that he’s telling the truth in this case. This is a massive escalation in terms of forms of protest against Elon. Besides that, a cyberattack against Twitter would not be beyond the realm of possibility. Specifically a DDoS or a Distributed Denial of Service attack which I think is what Elon is getting at in his Tweet. If that’s true, then the level of traffic that would have to be directed at Twitter to take them down should be easy to spot. Thus we’ll get to the bottom of Elon’s claims soon enough.

Needless to say, this is still potentially a developing story and updates are sure to come.

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