Elon Musk Blames DDOS Attack on X for Crashing Trump Interview

It’s not just you. If you were trying to listen to Elon Musk’s conversation with Donald Trump on social media X that was supposed to start at 8 pm ET, no one could actually listen. And now we know why.

Musk tweeted about the outage at 8:18 pm, blaming a widespread denial of service attack.

“There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏. Working to shut it down. At worst, we’ll continue with a small number of listeners and post a chat later,” Musk said on Twitter.

There seems to be a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏. Working to close it.

At worst, we will continue with a small number of live listeners and post the discussion later.

– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024

It should be noted that, a DDOS attack works by loading multiple servers with multiple requests, something that is unpredictable in getting multiple visitors to a given website at the same time. And given the interest in both Musk and Trump as fascist bigwigs, there’s clearly widespread interest in this small talk they’ve arranged. Interestingly, the Verge reports that a source at X told the media that there was actually no DDOS attack. That unnamed source was quoted as saying there was a “99%” chance that “Elon was lying” about the attack.

Musk added that X tested the The show had “8 million simultaneous listeners earlier today.” If we assume that Musk is telling the truth that his show can handle 8 million listeners, it is clear that more than 8 million people could try to listen to Trump and Musk reveal their racist inhumanity. The world has 8 billion people, and Twitter reportedly has around 500 million users worldwide.

“We will continue with a small number of simultaneous listeners at 8:30 pm ET and send random audio immediately after,” Musk wrote in a follow-up. Finally, the interview finally started around 8:40 pm ET.

It’s not the first time Musk has struggled to get an interview and work on X’s Spaces soundtrack. The same thing happened when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tried to make a big announcement about running for president in May 2023.

It appears that crypto fraudsters have been taking advantage of Musk’s technical failures, including one currently trending video on YouTube that uses a fake video of the billionaire. The video has hundreds of thousands of views at the time of this writing. Do not click on any links in that video because they only lead to scams.