The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster

Elon Musk’s “conversation” with erstwhile President Donald Trump got disconnected to a rocky start. The interview, which was hosted connected X Spaces and scheduled to statesman astatine 8PM ET Monday night, crashed astir immediately and didn’t statesman until 42 minutes later

Those who did negociate to get into the Space, including respective Verge staffers, said it kicked disconnected with lo-fi techno playing from Trump’s relationship for astir 30 minutes.

Eighteen minutes aft the speech was expected to begin, Musk claimed X was the people of a “massive DDOS attack” that had made it intolerable for the Space to proceed arsenic planned.

But the remainder of X appears to beryllium moving usually for Verge staffers, and a root astatine the institution confirmed to The Verge determination wasn’t really a DDOS attack. Another X staffer said determination was a “99 percent” accidental Elon was lying astir a DDOS attack.

In a bid of followup posts connected X, Musk claimed X tested the strategy with 8 cardinal concurrent listeners connected Monday and said X would big the Space with a smaller fig of concurrent users. As of this writing, X says determination are 915,000 radical listening to the Space.

Musk repeated the DDOS assertion erstwhile the Space yet began astir 8:40

The interview’s nonaccomplishment to get disconnected the crushed was reminiscent of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s 2023 announcement that helium was moving for president, which besides began with method difficulties. At the time, Musk attributed the problems to overloaded servers.

Kylie Robison contributed reporting.

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