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Musk claims there was a DDOS attack on X — but The Verge is told there was not.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 91 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Could it be because Xitter is made up of spaghetti code hosted on cheapest possible hardware?

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 71 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Absolutely.

Sidenote: I keep seeing "xitter" being used, is it safe to assume it's pronounced "shitter"?

[–] EisFrei@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago

You assume correctly

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago

Xit that's funny!

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 16 points 3 months ago
[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I sometimes instead call it Twatter, especially as it's now full of bigoted twats.