Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s joint X Spaces occasion seems to have crashed Monday afternoon. The dialog between the proprietor of X and the previous President was scheduled for five pm PT, however customers acquired an error message when becoming a member of at the moment.
“This Space is not available,” stated a message on X when making an attempt to hitch the Space.
The extremely anticipated dialog — which has been promoted by Trump and Musk — was speculated to mark the previous U.S. president’s return to X. The Spaces occasion, which Musk referred to as a “conversation,” began at 5:42 pm PT. The reside occasion was scheduled to start at 5 pm PT.
Trump returned to the social media outlet Monday morning, the place he posted for the primary time since January 2021 when he was banned from the platform. Some of Trump’s Monday posts promoted the dialog with Musk, whereas others featured marketing campaign adverts and hyperlinks to the previous President’s web site. For the final three years, Trump has switched to primarily posting on his personal social media platform Truth Social. That stated, Trump has been allowed to publish on X for almost two years; shortly after Musk took over Twitter, now X, he reinstated Trump’s Twitter account in November 2022.
Musk claimed “a massive DDOS attack on X” appeared to have occurred, supposedly the reason for the crashed X Space. The proprietor of X says the social media platform performed in depth testing earlier in the present day with eight million concurrent listeners. Musk kicked off the Space interview by connecting the alleged DDOS assault – which stands for distributed denial-of-service, during which a nasty actor overwhelms an web server with a flood of synthetic visitors – with opposition to listening to the previous President.
“As this massive attack illustrates, there’s a lot of opposition to people just hearing what president Trump has to say and so, but i’m honored to have this conversation,” Musk stated because the Spaces started.
This just isn’t the primary occasion of an X Space crashing when a political marketing campaign tries to make use of the platform. In May 2023, Twitter’s technical points interrupted Ron DeSantis’s 2024 marketing campaign announcement throughout a Twitter Space session with Elon Musk and enterprise capitalist David Sacks.
