Extended X Technical Glitch Delays Start Of Elon Musk-Donald Trump Event

At 8 p.m. ET, Donald Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social, “Getting ready for “chat” with Elon. BIG audience. ENJOY! DJT”

But the much promoted conversation between Trump and X owner Elon Musk was beset with a massive technical problem for more than 30 minutes, as users were unable to access to Spaces chat. Listeners instead got the message “unavailable.”

Musk wrote, “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.” He said that they had tested the system to handle 8 million concurrent listeners earlier in the day.

When the chat finally got started, Trump recounted the details of the assassination attempt on his life, before he and Musk shifted to some of the campaign’s signature issues, including immigration.

The glitch was reminiscent of the technical snafus that beset the launch of Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign last year, which the Florida governor announced on X Spaces.