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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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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Absolutely.

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

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago

You assume correctly

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Xit that's funny!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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