Elon Musk Blames DDOS Attack on X for Crashing Trump Interview

It’s not conscionable you. If you were trying to perceive to Elon Musk’s interrogation with Donald Trump connected the societal media level X that was expected to commencement astatine 8 p.m. ET, nary 1 was capable to really listen. And present we cognize why.

Musk tweeted astir the outage astatine 8:18 p.m., blaming a distributed denial-of-service attack.

“There appears to beryllium a monolithic DDOS onslaught connected 𝕏. Working connected shutting it down. Worst case, we volition proceed with a smaller fig of unrecorded listeners and station the speech later,” Musk tweeted.

There appears to beryllium a monolithic DDOS onslaught connected 𝕏. Working connected shutting it down.

Worst case, we volition proceed with a smaller fig of unrecorded listeners and station the speech later.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024

It should beryllium noted, of course, that a DDOS onslaught works by overloading servers with excessively galore requests, thing that’s indistinguishable from getting a batch of visitors to a fixed website astatine once. And fixed the involvement successful some Musk and Trump arsenic ample fascist personalities, there’s evidently wide involvement successful this small chat they had planned.

Musk added that X had tested the system “with 8 cardinal concurrent listeners earlier today.” Assuming that Musk is telling the information that his strategy could grip 8 cardinal listeners, it’s wholly plausible that much than 8 cardinal radical mightiness effort to perceive to Trump and Musk spout their inane, racist bullshit. The satellite has 8 cardinal people, and Twitter reportedly has astir 500 cardinal users worldwide.

“We volition proceed with the smaller fig of concurrent listeners astatine 8:30 ET and past station the unedited audio instantly thereafter,” Musk wrote successful a follow-up.

This isn’t the archetypal clip that Musk has struggled to get an interrogation up and moving connected X’s Spaces audio platform. Something precise akin happened erstwhile Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tried to marque a large splashy announcement that helium was moving for president back successful May 2023.

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