Elon Musk claims ‘massive DDOS attack’ delayed his live stream with Donald Trump

X’s reside streaming infrastructure seems to have failed, as soon as once more, at a high-profile second for the corporate. X proprietor Elon Musk was speculated to be interviewing Donald Trump reside on Areas, starting at 8pm ET Monday. However the stream repeatedly crashed and was fully inaccessible to many customers.

Musk claimed that the failure was resulting from a “large DDOS [distributed denial of service] assault on X,” and that the corporate “examined the system with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier right now.” As a substitute, solely a “smaller quantity” of individuals will have the ability to hearken to the dialog reside. As of 8:30pm ET, the reside stream had but to start. “Crashed,” “unable” and “Twitter blackout” trended on the platform.

Those that had been in a position to be a part of the stream had been greeted with a few half hour of maintain music adopted by a number of minutes of complete silence. The reside stream lastly began at 8:40pm ET. “All of our information traces, like principally a whole lot of gigabits of information, had been saturated,” Musk mentioned. “We expect we have overcome most of that.”

It’s not the primary time a high-profile reside stream on areas has run into technical difficulties, Final 12 months, Ron DeSantis attempted to announce his short-lived presidential bid throughout a reside dialog with Musk on X, however that stream was additionally delayed after repeated crashes.

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