Elon Musk's Donald Trump interview on X Spaces was derailed by technical glitches at the scheduled start time on August 12; Musk blamed “a massive DDoS attack”
but Elon Musk Desperately Needs Him Back Simon Sharwood / The Register : Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS Emily Dreibelbis / PCMag : Musk Blames DDoS Attack For 40-Minute Delayed Start to Trump's X Livestream Prakruti Mishra / Business Standard : Elon Musk's interview of Donald Trump hit by DDos attack. Know what it is Maggie Astor / New York Times : Live Election Updates: Delayed Musk-Trump Talk on X Begins Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch : Elon Musk and Donald Trump's X Spaces event crashes Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph : Musk claims X hit by ‘massive DDoS attack’ delaying Trump interview Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press : Elon Musk's interview with Donald Trump marred by technical glitches Steve Vegvari / iPhone in Canada Blog : Elon Musk Claims Spaces With Trump Amassed 1 Billion Combined Views, Amidst Tech Issues David Jackson / USA Today : Malfunction junction: X users cannot access Elon Musk interview of Donald Trump Rosalie Newcombe / Dexerto : Elon Musk insists “massive” DDOS attack delayed Trump interview Shraddha Sharma / Cryptopolitan : Musk blames DDoS attack for X outage but it's likely self-inflicted Ian Lyall / Proactive : Trump chat delayed as Musk blames cyber attack Victor Nava / New York Post : Harris-Walz campaign fundraises off Trump's interview with Musk — who says he'd be ‘happy to host Kamala, too’ WHDH-TV : Trump and Musk host friendly conversation on X after delay from technical difficulties Adam Marshall / Tech.co : Elon Musk Blames Cyberattack for Donald Trump Webchat Calamity Krishna Murthy / The Cyber Express : DDoS Attack Behind Glitches in Musk-Trump Interview on X, Claims Tesla CEO Joe Fay / The Stack : Was Elon Musk's interview with Donald Trump hit by a DDoS attack? 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Malicious cyber attack that delayed Elon Musk's interview with Donald Trump on X Ted Johnson / Deadline : Elon Musk's Donald Trump Conversation Was An Extended, Glitchy Lovefest — And A Big Welcome Back To X — Update Danny D'Cruze / Business Today : Elon Musk-Donald Trump interview on X faces multiple technical glitches; Musk blames ‘massive DDOS attack’ David Ingram / NBC News : Trump-Musk live X event delayed by technical difficulties Matt Novak / Gizmodo : Elon Musk Blames DDOS Attack on X for Crashing Trump Interview Aila Slisco / Newsweek : Elon Musk Says Cyberattack Shut Down Donald Trump X Interview Benedict Smith / Telegraph : Donald Trump interview crashes X as Musk blames cyber attack ABC : Elon Musk claims ‘massive DDoS attack’ on X during Donald Trump interview Business Insider : Elon Musk's big Spaces conversation with Trump kicked off with major technical difficulties Sara Dorn / Forbes : Musk-Trump Interview Delayed By X Glitches BBC : Musk blames ‘massive’ cyber attack for Trump interview delay Associated Press : The Latest: Harris and Trump paint different pictures for voters as the White House intensifies CNN : Elon Musk says denial-of-service attack is delaying his interview with Trump Natalie Korach / The Wrap : Donald Trump's X Interview With Elon Musk Delayed, Owner Blames ‘Massive DDOS Attack’ Brett Samuels / The Hill : Trump-Musk conversation delayed by tech issues as X founder blames cyberattack Stefanie Schappert / Cybernews.com : Trump and Musk's fireside chat crashes X, possible DDoS attack Washington Post : 2024 election live updates Zoya Sheftalovich / Politico : Trump's X interview livestream goes down, Musk blames ‘massive’ cyberattack New York Post : Trump's interview with Elon Musk on X live updates: Ex-prez set to sitdown with billionaire Jenny Jarvie / Los Angeles Times : After a glitchy start, Trump encounters a sympathetic interviewer in Elon Musk Karissa Bell / Engadget : Elon Musk claims ‘massive DDOS attack’ delayed his live stream with Donald Trump NBC News : Election 2024 live updates: Harris and Trump find rare common ground; DNC announces speakers Mizy Clifton / Semafor : Trump talk with Elon Musk live on X runs into technical problems Bitcoin Insider : Musk claims X hit by ‘massive DDoS attack’ delaying Trump interview Threads: Quinn Nelson / @snazzyq : Elon really was destined to be a c-suite executive. Being able to dodge personal accountability and place the blame on an external, conspiracist “dark hand” that doesn't exist is truly a skill few have. Dustin Moskovitz / @moskov : I'm guessing that the massive “DDOS attack” is just a high level of real concurrent users trying to watch the heavily promoted live stream. That often *looks* just like a DDOS attack internally as e.g. your webservers keep trying to reconnect to a database that has become overloaded. … Ryan Mac / @mac_ryan_ : Here is Musk agreeing with Zynga founder Mark Pincus, who suggested without evidence that the “attack” on X was due to the Democrats trying to stop Musk and Trump from speaking. Sean Colarossi / @seancolarossi : Okay, this is hilarious. First, Elon's interview with Trump crashed before it even began. They blamed an “attack,” though the rest of the site worked just fine. Then, when it did eventually come online, Trump appears to be slurring throughout the discussion, or speaking with a lisp. … Nilay Patel / @reckless1280 : Elon's big idea that you learn more from someone in a non-confrontational interview is being disproven so, so quickly Matthew Facciani / @matthewfacciani : Fascinating to watch pro-Trump accounts on X claim the interview crash was some sort of attack by “elites.” In their worldview the richest man in the world and the last president of the US are not “elites.” Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : Musk is now claiming the live Spaces event on X was hit by major DDoS attack causing it to break 😂 The dude has a conspiracy theory for everything. Much like most X users X: Elon Musk / @elonmusk : We tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier today @x : Between 7:47 PM and 10:47 PM ET, President Donald Trump's Space post received 73 million views. During the same period, there were 4 million posts about Elon Musk and President Trump's conversation on 𝕏, generating a total of 998 million views. Elon Musk / @elonmusk : Combined views of the conversation with @realDonaldTrump and subsequent discussion by other accounts now ~1 billion Keys / @u_n_l_0_c_k_e_d : Wow, a DDoS attack so advanced it's somehow able to target one specific Twitter Space while leaving the entire rest of the platform completely unaffected. A skeptic might call that impossible but the deviousness of these woke deep state leftists truly knows no bounds. [image] Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : It's unclear what the cause is, but worth noting Musk has a history of blaming outside forces for company problems. After one of his SpaceX rockets blew up in 2016, he suggested someone fired bullets at the rocket. The issue was later attributed to a faulty oxygen tank. [image] Ari Levy / @levynews : The half hour when nobody could get on was by far the highlight Elon Musk, Donald Trump event on X crashes site, Tesla CEO blames cyberattack https://www.cnbc.com/... Keys / @u_n_l_0_c_k_e_d : What's wrong Elon, are the bots you made to auto engage with any of your activity giving you problems? 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