Elon Musk’s long-awaited interview with the former president Donald Trump Technical glitches overshadowed Monday when people couldn’t join the audio chat on X’s Spaces platform.
Eighteen minutes into the interview, which was scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. EDT, Musk announced on X that the platform had suffered a “massive” denial of service (DDOS) attack, a federal criminal act that includes flooding the site. to overload the data and knock it offline.
Outage tracker Downdetector reported a spike in reports that X had been blocked for users prior to the interview, but it could not immediately be confirmed whether this was due to a malicious attack.
The interview finally started at 20:42.
Trump had previously mocked the Florida governor. Ron DeSantis when his primary campaign kicked off in May 2023 with an interview with X marred by disruptions.
“Wow! The DeSantis TWITTER post is a DISASTER!” In May 2023, Trump wrote on his Truth Social network, “His whole campaign is going to be a disaster. VIEW!”
The DeSantis event started with technical issues, which Musk said were caused by the strain on the servers because so many people were trying to listen. More than 20 minutes passed after the scheduled start time when users were started, hearing microphone feedback and playing music. other technical problems.
DeSantis dropped out of the race after a disappointing run in the Iowa primaries.
