Elon Musk assured leisure. He delivered technical difficulties as a substitute.
Musk deliberate to host GOP nominee Donald Trump for an interview “Dwell on X,” previously Twitter Areas,” at 8 p.m. However for the second time within the 2024 presidential election, the social media website was glitchy and lots of customers apparently couldn’t hearken to the interview.
Musk posted that “there seems to be an enormous DDOS assault on 𝕏. Engaged on shutting it down,” including that he could proceed with the interview with a smaller set of listeners. DDOS stands for “distributed denial of service.”
The interview began about 45 minutes late.
The swirl of posts about technical difficulties echoed Musk’s earlier X Dwell occasion with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who launched his Republican presidential major marketing campaign on an X dwell interview with Musk. As appeared to occur with Trump’s occasion, the location’s livestream portal, which is audio solely, crashed.
“I am assuming all of the Trump supporters who ridiculed DeSantis for the crashing of his Twitter House with Musk will do the identical right here. LOLOLOLOL,” wrote conservative commentator Erick Erickson, with a clown face emoji.
Musk posted forward of the occasion with Trump that he was “going to do some system scaling checks tonight & tomorrow prematurely.” However these precautionary measures couldn’t save the platform from crashing.
Some X customers had been capable of enter the livestream portal, however as Bloomberg’s Stephanie Lai posted, “We’re ten minutes in and there may be nonetheless background music enjoying.”
Many different customers couldn’t enter in any respect, getting both a gray-toned webpage the place the portal would normally pop up or an unavailable notification on the cellular app.
Trump’s marketing campaign spokesperson claimed that the GOP nominee and Musk were “breaking the web.”
Musk’s interview with Trump was imagined to be the third in a sequence with 2024 presidential candidates who’ve the tech mogul this 12 months. However Musk has now pledged to place his full help — and X feed actual property — behind Trump’s third marketing campaign. The multibillionaire has the potential to spice up Trump’s reelection probabilities with contributions from his private fortune and mobilizing his devoted on-line followers.
