Ukraine hits Russian Datacentre causing a 29% drop in US Twitter posts(www.thelondoneconomic.com)
20 pointsby My_Name5 hours ago3 comments
  • rawling5 hours ago
    Misleading headline?

    The quoted tweet says that 21-29% of traffic on twitter is bots.

    It doesn't say anything about 29% of traffic having actually measurably stopped, does it?

    Elsewhere on HN people are pointing out that the "bot traffic" coming from yandex that has stopped is the web scraper bots updating their search engine.

    • rdmuser4 hours ago
      That isn't even the headline for me. This is what I see:

      Far-right bot accounts ‘fall silent’ as Ukraine strikes cripple Russian data centres

      This is the second time today that an article on this subject was submitted to hn with an adulterated title. It's too bad too because it's an interesting subject even without the incorrect/bait titles.

      Here is the other one:

      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50050573

      • rawling4 hours ago
        That was the article title originally, the site must've changed it. Still pushing that "bot traffic" means "social media bots" though.
        • rdmuser3 hours ago
          Ah thanks I overlooked that this time. I guess I was still feeling a little unimpressed with the previous post and that influenced my impression of this one.
      • verdverm3 hours ago
        they tend to change the title as they find the one that generates more clicks
    • alanwreath5 hours ago
      > As per the bot analysts at Tom’s Hardware, bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded in the past two weeks.

      I wonder if this is what is being referred to

      • rawling5 hours ago
        That in turn comes from

        > Cloudflare reports that bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded in the past two weeks

        Cloudflare doesn't track twitter posts, does it? But requests to sites on its network. The kind of thing Yandex's search crawlers would be hitting.

        Also note (I think) the TH article also initially claimed this was talking about bot posts on social media, but now doesn't?

  • nbf_19955 hours ago
    Maybe coincidental, but the campaign of spam calls I get that leave voicemails completely stopped when this data center was hit last Thursday/Friday. Before I was getting 5-6 per day.
  • alanwreath5 hours ago
    Before midterms is strategic.