Elon Musk claimed the issues were caused by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack which is designed to force a website, computer, or online service offline.
Donald Trump's interview with Elon Musk on the billionaire entrepreneur's social media platform X was delayed by technical issues. The site showed that the page was 'not available' shortly after the scheduled start time of 8pm Eastern Time for some users, though more than 115,000 people appeared to have joined successfully. Musk then tweeted: 'There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on X. Working on shutting it down.
This is done by flooding the target with many requests, consuming its capacity and rendering it unable to respond to legitimate requests. The event started around 40 minutes late with Musk opening the chat talking about the assassination attempt on Trump. The former US president - whose account on X was suspended in 2021 after his supporters stormed the US Capitol - returned to the platform ahead of the event, making several posts.
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