Elon Musk says Donald Trump interview was “DDoSed” — X/Twitter employee claims Musk is lying

The elevator music played for over 54 minutes, then went completely silent.

That’s what happened to X users trying to tune in to an interview between Elon Musk and Donald Trump on Monday night, when the company’s live audio platform, Spaces, experienced glitches when hundreds of thousands of user accounts tried to tune in.

mask Condemned Regarding this issue, Company X claims that it was a denial of service attack (DDoS), but some employees of Company X claim that this is not true.

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X Space Failure

Musk’s interview with former President Donald Trump was heavily promoted in advance by both men.

Earlier this summer, Musk publicly endorsed Trump in his presidential reelection campaign. Trump has struggled in the polls since President Joe Biden decided not to run for reelection and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination. To promote the interview, Trump Back to the X on the mask The Spaces chat comes after a slew of posts were published on the platform for the first time in nearly a year.

President Trump’s X account shared the Space chat about 15 minutes before it was scheduled to start at 8pm ET. Both President Trump and Musk were in the Space, but more than 54 minutes passed after the scheduled start time before the two began speaking.

Meanwhile, users of X reported that they couldn’t even enter X’s space. Mashable confirmed that there were hundreds of thousands of users in the space around 8:30 p.m. When Mashable tried to enter the space, it suddenly screen “This space is unavailable” was displayed. Other X users reported similar experiences, unable to enter and hear the space. Those lucky enough to get inside heard elevator-like waiting music, which eventually went completely silent.

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When X’s technical issues were finally resolved, Musk blamed the glitches on a “massive DDoS attack.”

“It appears there was a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏,” Musk said. Posts“We are working towards closure and, in the worst case scenario, we will reduce the number of live listeners and post the conversations at a later date.”

But aside from the glitch in Trump and Musk’s space, the rest of X appeared to be operating normally at the time. Casting further doubt on Musk’s DDoS attack claims, some X employees said: The Verge What Musk said about the attack was simply not true.

“A company source confirmed to The Verge that there was in fact no denial-of-service attack,” the tech outlet reported. “Another Xtreme staffer said there was a ’99 percent’ chance that Musk was lying about the attack.”

X was previously known as host During a Spaces stream last year, then-presidential candidate Ron DeSantisThe platform, then known as Twitter, similarly crashed when hundreds of thousands of users tried to enter the space.

Musk’s fake numbers and Twitter blunders

The Space Chat begins at the 54-minute mark, and the two engage in a typical right-wing political debate, touching on many of the topics Musk posts on social media and Trump addresses in his speeches.

Trump credited Musk for the tech issues, citing inaccurate statistics that he attributed to the fact that he was “breaking all records” for viewership. Later in the interview, Trump appeared to look at the number of views his Spaces shared post had, which at the time had about 60 million. X’s post views are an impression-like feature that tracks each instance a post appears in front of a user, whether or not the user actively clicked on it. — Or maybe it just popped up in your feed as you were scrolling.

The live audio space with Trump and Musk itself peaked with approximately 1.4 million concurrent viewers.

But Musk gives credence to Trump’s inaccurate ratings reference.

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“My conversation with @realDonaldTrump and the subsequent discussions with other accounts have now had nearly 1 billion combined views,” Musk said. said Let X be the total number of views or impressions of all posts on Space Chat.

At press time, Trump and Musk’s X-Space had roughly 24 million views, which includes live viewers and replays, but the post itself claims 183 million views or impressions.

Interestingly, when talking about the platform he acquired and rebranded as X, Musk referred to it as “Twitter” multiple times during his conversation with Trump, and also referred to “posts” as “tweets,” which is no longer the official name.

Meanwhile, Trump’s @realDonaldTrump account pinned the space to the top of his X profile. Trump’s account hasn’t posted to X since.

As of Tuesday, Trump was back on his social media platform, TruthSocial, where he shared a link to his conversation with Musk, but did not share a link to X. Instead, he directed TruthSocial users to recordings of the conversation on YouTube and the right-wing video platform Rumble.