It’s not simply you. For those who had been making an attempt 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 capable of really hear. And now we all know why.
Musk tweeted in regards to the outage at 8:18 p.m., blaming a distributed denial-of-service assault.
“There seems to be an enormous DDOS assault on 𝕏. Engaged on shutting it down. Worst case, we’ll proceed with a smaller variety of reside listeners and put up the dialog later,” Musk tweeted.
There seems to be an enormous DDOS assault on 𝕏. Engaged on shutting it down.
Worst case, we’ll proceed with a smaller variety of reside listeners and put up the dialog later.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024
It ought to be famous, in fact, {that a} DDOS assault works by overloading servers with too many requests, one thing that’s indistinguishable from getting quite a lot 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 in the present day.” Assuming that Musk is telling the reality that his system may deal with 8 million listeners, it’s completely believable that greater than 8 million folks would possibly 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 are going to 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 operating on X’s Areas audio platform. One thing very related occurred when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tried to make an enormous splashy announcement that he was operating for president back in May 2023.
It seems that crypto scammers have been profiting from Musk’s technical failures, together with one outstanding video on YouTube that’s at present utilizing a deepfake video of the billionaire. The video has a whole lot of 1000’s 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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