{"id":7963,"date":"2022-11-19T16:39:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T15:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/19\/twitter-has-50-chance-of-major-crash-during-world-cup-says-insider\/"},"modified":"2022-11-19T16:39:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T15:39:39","slug":"twitter-has-50-chance-of-major-crash-during-world-cup-says-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/19\/twitter-has-50-chance-of-major-crash-during-world-cup-says-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter has \u201850% chance\u2019 of major crash during World Cup, says insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giant ill-equipped to deal with traffic spikes after cuts imposed by Elon Musk, according to former employee<\/p>\n<p>Twitter stands a 50% chance of a major outage that could take the site offline during the World Cup, according to a recently departed employee with knowledge of how the company responds to large-scale events.<\/p>\n<p>The former employee, who was granted anonymity because of the sensitivity of what was discussed, has knowledge of the workings of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/engineering\/en_us\/a\/2016\/when-seconds-really-do-matter\" title=\"\">Twitter Command Centre<\/a>, the platform\u2019s team of troubleshooters who monitor the site for issues such as traffic spikes and data centre outages.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/19\/twitter-crashing-world-cup-elon-musk-social-media-traffic-spikes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d0197af36b0171ef55484a6c94fe7d4bcf376efa\/1650_514_3017_1810\/master\/3017.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1bbebb0b642ff5bb6d399d4bf95207ee\" title=\"Twitter has \u201850% chance\u2019 of major crash during World Cup, says insider\" \/>Social media giant ill-equipped to deal with traffic spikes after cuts imposed by Elon Musk, according to former employee<br \/>\nTwitter stands a 50% chance of a major outage that could take the site offline during the World Cup, according to a recently departed employee with knowledge of how the company responds to large-scale events.<br \/>\nThe former employee, who was granted anonymity because of the sensitivity of what was discussed, has knowledge of the workings of Twitter Command Centre, the platform\u2019s team of troubleshooters who monitor the site for issues such as traffic spikes and data centre outages. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giant ill-equipped to deal with traffic spikes after cuts imposed by Elon Musk, according to former employee Twitter stands a 50% chance of a major outage that could take the site offline during the World Cup, according to a recently departed employee with knowledge of how the company responds to large-scale events. The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/19\/twitter-has-50-chance-of-major-crash-during-world-cup-says-insider\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter has \u201850% chance\u2019 of major crash during World Cup, says insider<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7963"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}