Former United States President Donald Trump is being interviewed by billionaire Elon Musk on his social media platform X (formerly Twitter). However, the interview was delayed by 40 minutes due to technical glitches, with Mr Musk acknowledging the issue. He said, "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."
Several users were unable to log in and soon "#crashed " and "DDOS" started to trend on the microblogging platform. Meanwhile, X users took to the internet and launched a meme fest.
"The best part about Twitter Spaces is how well it works," said a user.
𝕏 engineer in charge of spaces right now pic.twitter.com/qkW7KKqtkV
— Not Jerome Powell (@alifarhat79) August 13, 2024
It's not just the Trump and Elon space that's down
— Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) August 13, 2024
They crashed the whole Spaces network on X 🤣 pic.twitter.com/WbcNhGuM3m
Another added, "I'm in the Spaces. It hasn't started yet. It seems the whole world is trying to get into this Spaces lol, so technical difficulties are expected."
BREAKING: Internet pic.twitter.com/jR9jrzttSB
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) August 13, 2024
"The only site reliability engineer left at Twitter when Elon said he wanted to do another presidential candidate interview using Spaces," commented a person.
Me trying to join the @elonmusk and @realDonaldTrump twitter spaces pic.twitter.com/4n8wonbtuK
— wrld (@wrld_sol) August 13, 2024
Me listening to the twitter space seeing other people not be able to join: pic.twitter.com/1Md1gkhNcM
— Chairman (@WSBChairman) August 13, 2024
A person wrote, "I was really hoping they were well prepared for this one.Would have been a really good look for X. I'm definitely disappointed and I won't be listening to the replay. Spaces just aren't special as reruns. They need to figure that out."
A cyberattack isn't quite the same as a “glitch”
— 🇺🇸@SUSYKOOL/ZEOLIARMY🇮🇹🤌🏼🇺🇸 🫶🏼 (@sianetta) August 13, 2024
"Oh well. It's hard to let in 20 million plus at one time. Cry more. It's on now and going smoothly," said a person.
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