The joint X Spaces event between Elon Musk and Donald Trump seems to have failed on Monday afternoon. The owner of X was supposed to talk to the former President at 5 p.m. PT, but when people tried to join at that time, they got an error message.
When X tried to join the Space, it showed a message that said, “This Space is not.”
This much-anticipated talk, which Trump and Musk have been promoting, was meant to mark the former president’s return to X. Musk called the Spaces event a “conversation,” and it began at 5:42 p.m. PT. The live event was set to start at 5 p.m. PT.
On Monday morning, Trump went back to the social media site and wrote for the first time since January 2021, when he was banned. Some of Trump’s Monday posts talked about his meeting with Musk, while others had campaign ads and links to the website of the former president. Trump has mostly been writing on his own social media site, Truth Social, for the past three years. Still, Trump has been able to post on X for almost two years now. In November 2022, not long after Musk took over Twitter (now X), he restored Trump’s account.
Musk said that it looked like there had been “a massive DDOS attack on X,” which was said to be the reason why X Space crashed. The owner of X says that the social media site did a lot of testing this morning with 8 million users at the same time. In the beginning of the Space interview, Musk linked the supposed DDOS attack—that is, when someone floods an internet server with fake traffic—with people not wanting to hear the former President. DDOS stands for “distributed denial-of-service.”
There is a lot of opposition to people just hearing what President Trump has to say, as this huge attack shows. But Musk said, “I’m honored to have this conversation.”
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It’s not the first time that an X Space has crashed when a political campaign tries to use it. Twitter had technical problems in May 2023, which stopped Ron DeSantis from announcing his 2024 campaign during a Twitter Space session with Elon Musk and venture investor David Sacks.
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