X melts down after Trump-Musk's interview 'Space' immediately crashes
Musk alleged the crash was the result of a 'DDOS attack on X'
Critics railed against the technical difficulties that plagued X owner Elon Musk's highly-anticipated interview with former President Trump.
X users rushed to join Trump's "Space" where he was supposed to speak with the billionaire tech tycoon on the 2024 race. However, the "Space" immediately crashed due to the influx of users, offering the message "This Space is unavailable."
Moments later, Musk took to X, telling users, "There appears to be a massive DDOS [distributed denial-of-service] attack on 𝕏. Working on shutting it down. Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later."
There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏. Working on shutting it down.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024
Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.
In response to one X user who speculated that Democrats were involved in technical meltdown, Musk wrote "Yeah."
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