Donald Trump-Elon Musk interview on X Spaces: What to know about the “massive” DDoS attack claimed by Musk
The Hindu
A conversation between Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk on X went awry due to technical glitches that Musk claimed was a DDoS attack.
A conversation between Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk on the latter’s social media platform X went awry due to technical glitches that Musk claimed were part of a DDoS attack.
The conversation was a key event, as it marked Trump’s high-profile return to X after being banned from Twitter in 2021, following the Capitol riots. Musk has also strongly endorsed Trump as a U.S. presidential candidate, so bringing the former president onto his platform for a conversation was a significant move that captured public attention.
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Less than 20 minutes into the highly-anticipated interview, Musk posted that a large distributed denial-of-service attack had hit the social media platform. DDoS refers to an attack against a platform that attempts to bring it down by overloading it with too many queries in too short an interval. Many of the queries are useless, as the aim is to direct excessive traffic to the platform and cause it to eventually fail.
“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,” posted Musk on X on August 13 at 5:48 am IST.
He later confirmed this would be the case, and promised an unedited audio version would quickly be made available.
“We tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier today,” he added on X.
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