Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s interview with X owner Elon Musk was knocked offline crashed on Monday evening after it came under a “massive DDOS attack”.
The highly anticipated interview had hundreds of thousands of people listening live when it crashed right after it launched around 8 p.m. EST.
“There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏,” Musk posted on the site. “Working on shutting it down. Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.”
There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏. Working on shutting it down.
Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024
Musk said that earlier in the day his team “tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners”.
He added that X would proceed with a…
