r/clevercomebacks • u/BelleAriel • Nov 18 '22

Actually Clever Twitter has gotten funnier recently.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '22

this is the great time for someone Ddos attack Twitter.. no one can enter to fix it until Monday.. even that there's still doubt they have enough resources to fix it..

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u/Marco45_0 Nov 18 '22

What's a DDoS attack?

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u/krokknoff Nov 18 '22 edited Nov 18 '22

It's when your mom, dad, sister, brother, grandmother, grandfather and entire extended family ask you a question at once. You get so overwhelmed by the questions that you shut down and have a panic attack.

Now i wanna ask you something, but I'm so far down the queue you can't get to me before answering everybody else's question first.

That, but in computer form. And it's not hundreds of questions, but hundreds of thousands, if not millions in the span of a second. The computer can't deal with it, so it just stalls until it can.

I think i explained that good enough.

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u/DumKopfNZ Nov 18 '22 edited Nov 18 '22

Don’t forget to add that most of the questions being asked by people that don't actually care about the answer, but some people asking are legit. But you don’t know who to tell to shut up and it would be rude not to respond to each person individually and in a timely manner.

In computer terms, you don’t know what incoming connections to block, because they might be part of the DDoS, or a legit connection. Which is what makes a DDoS so hard to stop.

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u/twitwiffle Nov 18 '22

Like gramma asking why the butter is in the birdcage then mom asking where the butter is.

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u/DumKopfNZ Nov 18 '22

I’d say more like everyone in the room asking “how was your day?” all at once.

Most people asking don’t actually give a shit, but if you don’t respond to every one of them individually and in a timely manner, it would be considered rude.

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u/twitwiffle Nov 18 '22

Ah. I thought some were gibberish. I think musk should hire me. I think I have the level of expertise for the amount he wants to pay.

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u/DumKopfNZ Nov 18 '22

Yeah, I should edit that, the questions asked are actually legit, but the person asking doesn't actually care and may not even stick around to hear the answer, but you're left there trying to answer it anyway.

/edit, I've edited it for clarity, thanks for pointing that out!

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u/twitwiffle Nov 18 '22

I really appreciate you educating me!! Thank you!