Users were unable to access the former president’s ‘X Space’ where his interview is set to stream live.
Elon Musk’s planned Aug. 12 interview with Former President Donald Trump hit a roadblock after the owner said the site was facing a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack, preventing the X Space from going live.
“There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on X. Working on shutting it down,” Musk, the owner of X, said in a post.
“Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.”
Nearly 40 minutes past the planned start time, Musk’s voice finally broadcast in the Spaces room dedicated to the interview with more than a million users listening live.
Musk said the attack demonstrated that there are those who want to prevent the public hearing from Trump.
Twitter tested its Spaces platform with 8 million concurrent users earlier in the day, according to Musk.
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“We will proceed with the smaller number of concurrent listeners at 8:30 ET and then post the unedited audio immediately thereafter,” Musk said on X.The FBI said on Monday that it’s investigating the hacking of the Trump campaign by Iran. Microsoft reported on Aug. 9 that Iranian hackers