Live Nation President Joe Berchtold to Congress: during Taylor Swift's tour presale, Ticketmaster saw triple the bot traffic, which then impacted Verified Fan
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Discussion
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@jdcapelouto
J.D. Capelouto
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The Live Nation Entertainment president said Ticketmaster expected bots for the #ErasTour and “planned accordingly,” but got 3x the amount of bot traffic it'd ever experienced. “We apologize to the fans, we apologize to Ms. Swift.” https://www.semafor.com/...
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@juliettekayyem
Juliette Kayyem
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Ticketmaster's framing of a #CyberAttack to explain the Taylor Swift ticket meltdown is convenient for them as the “victims.” Be wary. Even per their CEO: “the bots failed to penetrate our systems or acquire any tickets.” Anyway, I needed 1 tweet on #taylorswift. Thank you. https…
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@kevincollier
Kevin Collier
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There's a very long and rich history of people claiming they were victims of a DDoS attack when in fact they were just unprepared for that much traffic. I'm not saying that's what happened, but I'm at least skeptical. https://www.politico.com/...
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@caseyjohnellis
@caseyjohnellis
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“is it cool that i pwned all that is it chill that i'm in your network 'cos i know that it's delicate...” Ticketmaster says cyberattack disrupted Taylor Swift ticket sales - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/...
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@ddayen
David Dayen
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Mickelson: one of the things a ticket company is supposed to do is to have solutions to bots. For Live Nation to say they can't handle it is an unbelievable situation.
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@matthewstoller
Matt Stoller
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Senator Marsha Blackburn: “How many times have you called the FTC and said ‘we need help with this’? Why is it you cannot identify a bot attack? The local power company can tell.” Blackburn is very angry at Live Nation.
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@dontblameklara
@dontblameklara
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“Ticketmaster doesn't set the service fees the venue does” “The venues that you control you mean?”
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@therecount
@therecount
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Live Nation CFO Joe Berchtold says Ticketmaster was “hit with three times the amount of bot traffic we'd ever experienced” during presale for Taylor Swift's upcoming Eras Tour: “We apologize to the fans. We apologize to Ms. Swift. We need to to better, and we will do better.” htt…
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@kept_simple
@kept_simple
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taylor swift successfully positioning herself as a victim of ticketmaster should be studied by PR people for decades
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@livoftheparty
@livoftheparty
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taylor swift lyrics in a courtroom while suing ticketmaster is just the wildest thing i can think of to start my tuesday https://twitter.com/...
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@sleeecy
Alicia
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This literally so funny. Ticketmaster shaking when republicans and democrats are united in this “I'm the problem, it's me” 💀 https://twitter.com/...