{"id":150645,"date":"2022-11-21T07:52:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T13:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/twitter-has-50-chance-of-major-crash-during-world-cup-says-insider"},"modified":"2022-11-21T07:52:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T13:52:57","slug":"twitter-has-50-chance-of-major-crash-during-world-cup-says-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/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><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/twitter-has-50-chance-of-major-crash-during-world-cup-says-insider2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter could \u2018face outage\u2019 during FIFA World Cup 2022, claims insider\u2019First World Cup match on Sunday! Watch on Twitter for best coverage &amp; real-time commentary,\u2019 Musk tweeted earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has a 50\u201350 chance of experiencing a major crash during the FIFA World Cup 2022, a recently departed employee, told The Guardian on Saturday.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cBetween the lack of preparations and the lack of staffing, I think it\u2019s going to be a rough World Cup for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/twitter\">Twitter<\/a>,\u201d said the former employee.<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that an incident of some kind \u2013 such as a service responding slowly or incorrectly \u2013 is almost a certainty during the 29-day competition in Qatar, estimating a 90% possibility of something going wrong that users would see.<\/p>\n<p>The likelihood of Twitter staying online during the competition, which kicks off on Sunday, is no better than even, according to the former employee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter could \u2018face outage\u2019 during FIFA World Cup 2022, claims insider\u2019First World Cup match on Sunday! Watch on Twitter for best coverage &amp; real-time commentary,\u2019 Musk tweeted earlier. Twitter has a 50\u201350 chance of experiencing a major crash during the FIFA World Cup 2022, a recently departed employee, told The Guardian on Saturday. \u201cBetween the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}