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Ask HN: How much would it cost to migrate Twitter to Cloudflare?

by tuyuri on 8/31/24, 3:28 AM with 6 comments

I'm from Brazil, and currently, our ISPs are dropping any requests for the Twitter IP range (AS13414 Twitter Inc.) and refusing DNS queries on their servers.

If a user is already using Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1), wouldn't moving Twitter to Cloudflare make the block unfeasible? What are the downsides from a business perspective to not migrating? How much would it cost to migrate Twitter to Cloudflare?

Edit: Yeah, they could just ask Cloudflare to block it, but what if Cloudflare refuses to do so?

  • by dave4420 on 8/31/24, 5:14 AM

    If Cloudflare was proxying or hosting Twitter and refused to block Twitter in Brazil, then… couldn’t Brazil block Cloudflare?

  • by oguz-ismail on 8/31/24, 4:29 AM

    Given how anti free speech Cloudflare is I don't think it'd be wise for Twitter to migrate there

  • by blisterpeanuts on 8/31/24, 9:21 AM

    Can’t a VPN bypass the filters, as is done in China?