Might sound a bit ancient and conservative but for this particular use case, the good old Radio technology (MW/SW, AM/FM, etc) is a better candidate than the regular Internet. It's a tad more difficult to hack or DDOS compared to Internet as there is no single point of failure. If you broadcast on a SW frequency, for example, they will have to block/jam it in every single country where those waves traverse.
Why is this [flagged]? Sounds like The Register has plausible reasons to also, like the OP, question if this is genuinely caused by a DDoS attack.
Twitter uses AWS, Azure, and GCP. They also use Cloudflare. Any of those providers especially Cloudflare would know. My bet is the claim is part of the hype train. and is false. All of those cloud providers can deal with much greater traffic than that "event".
[dupe] More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41230965
Anyone who doesn't like Trump wants as many people to hear his unhinged rambling as possible so I don't understand why enemies would DDoS them.
I use twitter a fair bit and haven't seen any disruptions - though I use it only in browser, maybe the app has seen some. It seems like only the Spaces part with Trump was overrun and not working which does make Musk's claim seem sus but they got it rather quickly working anyway. Ever since Musk took over there has been an insane amount of doomposting about twitter but it's still going fine.
Who does Twitter/X use for DDoS mitigation? Akamai? Cloudflare? Anyone know?
excuses for bad tech. Elon is liar
Don't know what it is
I’m… a little shocked Trump agreed to do this, after the DeSantis fiasco?
Those 281 H1b engineers are so screwed
The Register has weighed in with a Yeah, Right skeptical attitude:
The Register has found no evidence of a denial of service attack directed at X. Check Point Software's live cyber threat map does not record unusual levels of activity at the time of writing. NetScout's real-time DDoS map recorded only small attacks on the US.
If a DDoS was indeed the reason for the delayed start of the event, it appears not to have impacted the rest of X's operations – there were plenty of posts commenting on the problems with the Space occupied by the interview. And Musk was tweeting from the very network said to be under attack.
They've also thrown shade on the numbers:
The interview commenced some 40 minutes after its advertised time. Live audience statistics reported 1.1 to 1.3 million attendees during the portions of the event The Register observed – although during the stream Trump claimed that the event had an audience of 60 million or more, exceeding targets of 25 million.It's a Musktruth. A bit like a Trumptruth.
"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-elo...
Didn't the same thing happened to livestream for Desantis?