Elon Musk claims ‘massive DDOS attack’ delayed his live stream with Donald Trump<p>X’s live streaming infrastructure appears to have failed, once again, at a high-profile moment for the company. X owner Elon Musk was supposed to be interviewing Donald Trump <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1823035759655264697" data-original-link="
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1823035759655264697">live on[/url] Spaces, beginning at 8pm ET Monday. But the stream repeatedly crashed and was completely inaccessible to many users.</p>
<p>Musk <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1823153581882810650" data-original-link="
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1823153581882810650">claimed[/url] that the failure was due to a “massive DDOS [distributed denial of service] attack on X,” and that the company “tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier today.” Instead, only a “smaller number” of people will be able to listen to the conversation live. As of 8:30pm ET, the live stream had yet to begin. “Crashed,” “unable” and “Twitter blackout” trended on the platform.</p>
<span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>Those who were able to join the stream were greeted with about a half hour of hold music followed by several minutes of total silence. The live stream finally started at 8:40pm ET. “All of our data lines, like basically hundreds of gigabits of data, were saturated,” Musk said. “We think we've overcome most of that.” Musk didn’t explain how a DDOS attack could target only one specific feature on the service without affecting other aspects of X’s app or website.</p>
<p>It’s not the first time a high-profile live stream on spaces has run into technical difficulties. Last year, Ron DeSantis <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="
https://www.engadget.com/ron-desantis-cant-announce-hes-running-for-president-because-twitters-servers-are-kind-of-melting-222437047.html">attempted to announce[/url] his short-lived presidential bid during a live conversation with Musk on X, but that stream was also delayed after repeated crashes. Musk, at the time, said that Twitter’s servers were “kind of melting.” Musk’s biographer <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="
https://www.engadget.com/what-the-elon-musk-biography-revealed-about-his-tumultuous-twitter-takeover-184548188.html">later reported[/url] that the issues were a result of months of instability within Twitter's systems after Musk instructed his cousins to hastily dismantle one of the company’s data centers.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/elon-musk-claims-massive-ddos-attack-delayed-his-live-stream-with-donald-trump-004457451.html?src=rssSource:
Elon Musk claims ‘massive DDOS attack’ delayed his live stream with Donald Trump
