Donald Trump’s interview with Elon Musk on the billionaire businessman’s X social media platform was delayed due to technical issues.
The site showed the page to be “unavailable” shortly after the scheduled start time of 8pm Eastern Time (1am UK Time) for some users, although more than 115,000 people appeared to have joined successfully.
Musk then tweeted: “There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on X. We are working to shut it down.
“In the worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and publish the conversation later.”
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A distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack is designed to force a website, computer, or online service offline.
This is done by flooding the target with many requests, consuming its capacity and leaving it unable to respond to legitimate requests.
The event started about 40 minutes late and Musk opened the chat by talking about the assassination attempt on Trump.
The Republican presidential candidate told Musk that he will return in October to Butler, Pennsylvania, where he was shot on July 13.
One person was killed and several others were injured when Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at the campaign rally.
“We’ll go back to Butler and we’ll be back in October,” Trump said. “The people are fantastic at Butler.”
The former US president, whose X account (when it was known as Twitter) was suspended in 2021 after his followers stormed the US Capitol, returned to the platform before the event and made several posts.
The issues will bring back bad memories for Musk of May 2023, when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suffered a chaotic start to his bid for the Republican presidential nomination due to platform glitches.
The hour-long broadcast lost sound for long periods and thousands of users were unable to join or were removed.
At the time, Trump mocked DeSantis on his own social media platform, Truth Social.
“My Red Button is bigger, better, stronger and it’s working (TRUTH!),” Trump posted.
“Not yours.”
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