A highly anticipated online event featuring Elon Musk and former US President Donald Trump experienced technical difficulties on Monday afternoon. The conversation, hosted on social media platform X, was scheduled to start at 5pm PT, but users received an error message that said, “This slot is not available.” The event marked Trump's return to the platform, his first post since January 2021.
Trump, who has primarily been using his own social media platform, Truth Social, for the past three years was reinstated to X in November 2022, shortly after Musk took over the platform. On Monday morning, Trump returned to X, promoting his upcoming conversation with Musk and sharing campaign ads and links to his website.
The event, which Musk referred to as a “conversation,” finally began at 5:42 PM PT, after a delay. Musk attributed the delay to a “massive DDOS attack on X,” a distributed denial-of-service attack where a server is overwhelmed with a flood of artificial traffic. Musk suggested the attack was an attempt to prevent people from hearing what the former president had to say.
He said: “As this massive attack illustrates, there is a lot of opposition to people just listening to what President Trump has to say and so on, but I'm honored to have this conversation.” The platform had reportedly conducted extensive testing earlier in the day with 8 million simultaneous listeners.
This isn't the first time an X Space event has had technical issues. In May 2023, a session with Elon Musk and venture capitalist David Sacks to announce Ron DeSantis' 2024 campaign was cut short due to similar technical issues.
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