Elon Musk Blames DDOS Assault on X for Crashing Trump Interview

It’s not simply you. In case you had been attempting to hearken to Elon Musk’s interview with Donald Trump on the social media platform X that was supposed to start out at 8 p.m. ET, nobody was in a position to truly pay attention. And now we all know why.

Musk tweeted concerning the outage at 8:18 p.m., blaming a distributed denial-of-service assault.

“There seems to be a large DDOS assault on 𝕏. Engaged on shutting it down. Worst case, we are going to proceed with a smaller variety of stay listeners and publish the dialog later,” Musk tweeted.

There seems to be a large DDOS assault on 𝕏. Engaged on shutting it down.

Worst case, we are going to proceed with a smaller variety of stay listeners and publish the dialog later.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024

It must be famous, after all, {that a} DDOS assault works by overloading servers with too many requests, one thing that’s indistinguishable from getting a whole lot of guests to a given web site without delay. And given the curiosity in each Musk and Trump as giant fascist personalities, there’s clearly widespread curiosity on this little chat they’d deliberate. Curiously, the Verge reports a supply at X instructed the information outlet there wasn’t truly a DDOS assault. That unnamed supply is quoted as saying there was a “99%” probability that “Elon was mendacity” about an assault.

Musk added that X had examined the system “with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier at present.” Assuming that Musk is telling the reality that his system might deal with 8 million listeners, it’s totally believable that greater than 8 million folks may attempt to hearken to Trump and Musk spout their inane, racist bullshit. The world has 8 billion folks, and Twitter reportedly has about 500 million customers worldwide.

“We are going to proceed with the smaller variety of concurrent listeners at 8:30 p.m. ET after which publish the unedited audio instantly thereafter,” Musk wrote in a follow-up. Finally, the interview did lastly begin round 8:40 p.m. ET.

This isn’t the primary time that Musk has struggled to get an interview up and operating on X’s Areas audio platform. One thing very comparable occurred when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tried to make an enormous splashy announcement that he was operating for president back in May 2023.

It seems that crypto scammers have been profiting from Musk’s technical failures, together with one distinguished video on YouTube that’s presently utilizing a deepfake video of the billionaire. The video has a whole lot of 1000’s of viewers on the time of this writing. Don’t click on on any hyperlinks in that video as they solely result in scams.