[cam72cam]

SpaceX does not stream on YouTube, you are watching an old launch on a fake channel. Please report them.

[dpcx]

Is that new? Because SpaceX has streamed launches on YouTube for years.

[TOMDM]

Yes, the official stream is only on Twitter now.

[greedo]

They also stream the launch live on the spacex.com website.

[ta1243]

Thank you

I tried signing up for twitter but gave up at the "match these dice with these symbols (1 of 10)" stage.

It's not a great interface compared with youtube etc, not rewinding etc, but at least it works

[sneak]

That’s a Twitter embed on the SpaceX website. It’s still streaming from Twitter.

[dylan604]

but no Twit...er, X account required

[namaria]

I will be deep in the cold cold ground before I recognize Twitter's new name

[Hamuko]

Musk decided that Twitter is now a video platform and he's decided to dogfeed with SpaceX.

[atonse]

Twitter was a video platform before Musk took over. They were doing Thursday night football (NFL) and other things.

Looking at the SpaceX feed, they seem to be using whatever tech they got from the Periscope acquisition (at least the servers were still pscp.tv).

[Hamuko]

Twitter was not a video platform – it had (some) video features. Very different. And people always considered Twitter videos to absolutely suck.

[hnbad]

That hasn't really changed though. He's just decided to manifest "Twitter is a video platform" into existence. The controls are still total ass though.

[atonse]

Yes just to be pedantic, twitter has never been "a video platform" – but that they've had support for streaming live events for years.

So take with that whatever it means, that it's just not going to be as first-class citizen like in Youtube. But the CDN etc must be good enough as those things are easier to do nowadays.

[pixl97]

They did that for IFT-2 and the first channel I went to was one of those crypto bullshit things too. Very dumb decision on SpaceX's (well probably Musk himself) part.

[namaria]

Dang I got got. Thanks for letting me know

[bluescrn]

You weren't the only one, I clicked on it too, as did thousands of others, before finding a real stream

[sneak]

YouTube does a bad job of real time takedowns of spoofed live streams. You’d think for big events like this they would have somebody just standing by and monitoring social stuff so that things like this don’t happen.

Then again you'd think one of Amazon's 1.5M employees would have the job of finding fake USB sticks for sale on the site, but apparently nobody has that title either.

[dylan604]

> You’d think for big events like this they would have somebody just standing by

This implies that YT has humans that are not in sales. It feels like YT just has bots building more bots at this point.