Immediately crashes

X melts down after Trump-Musk's interview 'Space' immediately crashes

Musk alleged the crash was the result of a 'DDOS attack on X'

By Joseph A. Wulfsohn

Critics railed against the technical difficulties that plagued X owner Elon Musk's highly-anticipated interview with former President Trump. 

X users rushed to join Trump's "Space" where he was supposed to speak with the billionaire tech tycoon on the 2024 race. However, the "Space" immediately crashed due to the influx of users, offering the message "This Space is unavailable." 

Moments later, Musk took to X, telling users, "There appears to be a massive DDOS [distributed denial-of-service] 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."

In response to one X user who speculated that Democrats were involved in technical meltdown, Musk wrote "Yeah."

Musk later insisted X was technically prepared for the Trump interview, posting "We tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier today."

"We will proceed with the smaller number of concurrent listeners at 8:30 ET and then post the unedited audio immediately thereafter," Musk followed.

Musk later insisted X was technically prepared for the Trump interview, posting "We tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier today."

"We will proceed with the smaller number of concurrent listeners at 8:30 ET and then post the unedited audio immediately thereafter," Musk followed.

"Trump was fuming at the NABJ when their technical difficulties kept him waiting for 30 minutes Now he’s kept waiting again, and ofc a lot of the coverage is going to focus on the technical meltdown no matter what he says. He won’t be happy," Breaking Points co-host Saagar Enjeti wrote.

New York Times reporter Jonathan Swan took a swipe at Musk's earlier promise when he said "Entertainment guaranteed!", replying "I’ll take functionality guaranteed!"

Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung later posted a photo of Trump looking over his phone, captioning it "BREAKING THE INTERNET!"