X’s DDoS Attack

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X’s DDoS Attack

In Short

• X owner Elon Musk hosted the interview in the Spaces
• The interview began after 42 minutes of the crash
• Musk claimed the company tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners

Elon Musk’s interview with former President Donald Trump on X (formerly Twitter) started off a little rough. The interview, which was hosted on X Spaces and scheduled to begin at 8PM ET on Monday, crashed as soon as it started. According to the reports, after the crash, the interview took near to 42 minutes to resume. While nobody knows the real reason behind the derailment, Musk claims that during the time of the interview, X was the target of a “massive DDOS attack” that had made it impossible for the Space to proceed as planned. He later posted, saying there appeared to be a massive DDoS attack on X and the platform is working on shutting it down.

As . X owner Elon Musk claims the social media platform was hit with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack as his slated interview with presidential hopeful Donald Trump was set to kick off.

“There appears to be a massive DDoS attack on X. Working on shutting it down,” Musk posted to X on Aug. 12. A DDoS attack aims to flood a network or service with traffic to disrupt and deny legitimate users from being able to use it.

It comes as technical issues plagued the X Spaces Musk and Trump were scheduled to hold at 8:00 pm Eastern Time as multiple X users complained they could not join.

The site showed the stream was “not available,” but around 120,000 still managed to join. In a separate post, Musk said X tested the system earlier in the day with eight million concurrent listeners.

Musk managed to start the interview shortly after 8:30 pm ET, which he earlier said would “proceed with a smaller number of live listeners” with unedited audio to be posted “immediately thereafter.”

“As this massive attack illustrates, there’s a lot of opposition to people just hearing what President Trump has to say,” Musk said when opening the interview.

Throughout the two-hour-long interview, Trump talked about — among other things — the attempt on his life, illegal immigration and foreign relations, and attacked President Joe Biden and his now rival presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Despite Trump’s pro-crypto push and Musk’s long-time love of Dogecoin (DOGE), crypto wasn’t mentioned once.

Polymarket punters bet just over $1 million on a 56% chance of Trump mentioning “crypto” or “Bitcoin” as the interview started, which both quickly dropped and continued to fall throughout the interview to hit a low of 1% before the interview ended.

Before the interview, Commissioner for Internal Market of the European Union, Thierry Breton, warned Musk in a letter that he must comply with EU laws, claiming his interview with Trump carried “a risk of amplification of potentially harmful content.”

X CEO Linda Yaccarino claimed Breton’s letter was “an unprecedented attempt to stretch a law intended to apply in Europe to political activities in the US.”

She claimed it ”patronizes European citizens” and suggests they’re “incapable of listening to a conversation and drawing their own conclusions.”

 

 

 

Blog By : Trupti Thakur