It’s not simply you. If you happen to had been attempting to hearken to Elon Musk’s interview with Donald Trump on the social media platform X that was supposed to start out at 8 p.m. ET, nobody was in a position to really pay attention. And now we all know why.
Musk tweeted concerning the outage at 8:18 p.m., blaming a distributed denial-of-service assault.
“There seems to be a large DDOS assault on 𝕏. Engaged on shutting it down. Worst case, we are going to proceed with a smaller variety of stay listeners and put up the dialog later,” Musk tweeted.
There seems to be a large DDOS assault on 𝕏. Engaged on shutting it down.
Worst case, we are going to proceed with a smaller variety of stay listeners and put up the dialog later.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024
It needs to be famous, in fact, {that a} DDOS assault works by overloading servers with too many requests, one thing that’s indistinguishable from getting lots of guests to a given web site without delay. And given the curiosity in each Musk and Trump as giant fascist personalities, there’s clearly widespread curiosity on this little chat they’d deliberate.
Musk added that X had examined the system “with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier at this time.” Assuming that Musk is telling the reality that his system might deal with 8 million listeners, it’s completely believable that greater than 8 million folks may attempt to hearken to Trump and Musk spout their inane, racist bullshit. The world has 8 billion folks, and Twitter reportedly has about 500 million customers worldwide.
“We’ll proceed with the smaller variety of concurrent listeners at 8:30 ET after which put up the unedited audio instantly thereafter,” Musk wrote in a follow-up.
This isn’t the primary time that Musk has struggled to get an interview up and working on X’s Areas audio platform. One thing very related occurred when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tried to make a giant splashy announcement that he was working for president back in May 2023.
It seems that crypto scammers have been profiting from Musk’s technical failures, together with one distinguished video on YouTube that’s at the moment utilizing a deepfake video of the billionaire. The video has tons of of hundreds of viewers on the time of this writing. Don’t click on on any hyperlinks in that video as they solely result in scams.
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