Yes, the official stream is only on Twitter now.

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

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

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

but no Twit...er, X account required

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

you see how I refer to it. it gets both names in there, and expresses the disdain and the confusion all in one go.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.