Musk-Trump Interview Encounters Tech Glitches, Sparks Meme Frenzy Online https://ift.tt/cRl74mK Former United States President Donald Trump is being interviewed by billionaire Elon Musk on his social media platform X (formerly Twitter). However, the interview was delayed by 40 minutes due to technical glitches, with Mr Musk acknowledging the issue. He said, "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." Several users were unable to log in and soon "#crashed " and "DDOS" started to trend on the microblogging platform. Meanwhile, X users took to the internet and launched a meme fest. "The best part about Twitter Spaces is how well it works," said a user. ? engineer in charge of spaces right now pic.twitter.com/qkW7KKqtkV — Not Jerome Powell (@alifarhat79) August 13, 2024 It's not just the Trump and Elon space that's down They crashed the whole Spaces network on X ? pic.twitter.com/WbcNhGuM3m — Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) August 13, 2024 Another added, "I'm in the Spaces. It hasn't started yet. It seems the whole world is trying to get into this Spaces lol, so technical difficulties are expected." BREAKING: Internet pic.twitter.com/jR9jrzttSB — DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) August 13, 2024 "The only site reliability engineer left at Twitter when Elon said he wanted to do another presidential candidate interview using Spaces," commented a person. Me trying to join the @elonmusk and @realDonaldTrump twitter spaces pic.twitter.com/4n8wonbtuK — wrld (@wrld_sol) August 13, 2024 Me listening to the twitter space seeing other people not be able to join: pic.twitter.com/1Md1gkhNcM — Chairman (@WSBChairman) August 13, 2024 A person wrote, "I was really hoping they were well prepared for this one.Would have been a really good look for X. I'm definitely disappointed and I won't be listening to the replay. Spaces just aren't special as reruns. They need to figure that out." A cyberattack isn't quite the same as a “glitch” — ??@SUSYKOOL/ZEOLIARMY?????? ?? (@sianetta) August 13, 2024 "Oh well. It's hard to let in 20 million plus at one time. Cry more. It's on now and going smoothly," said a person. https://ift.tt/yvcXGC0 August 13, 2024 at 07:50AM NDTV News-Offbeat https://www.ndtv.com

Musk-Trump Interview Encounters Tech Glitches, Sparks Meme Frenzy Online https://ift.tt/cRl74mK

Former United States President Donald Trump is being interviewed by billionaire Elon Musk on his social media platform X (formerly Twitter). However, the interview was delayed by 40 minutes due to technical glitches, with Mr Musk acknowledging the issue. He said, "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."

Several users were unable to log in and soon "#crashed " and "DDOS" started to trend on the microblogging platform. Meanwhile, X users took to the internet and launched a meme fest.

"The best part about Twitter Spaces is how well it works," said a user.

? engineer in charge of spaces right now pic.twitter.com/qkW7KKqtkV

— Not Jerome Powell (@alifarhat79) August 13, 2024

It's not just the Trump and Elon space that's down

They crashed the whole Spaces network on X ? pic.twitter.com/WbcNhGuM3m

— Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) August 13, 2024

Another added, "I'm in the Spaces. It hasn't started yet. It seems the whole world is trying to get into this Spaces lol, so technical difficulties are expected."

BREAKING: Internet pic.twitter.com/jR9jrzttSB

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) August 13, 2024

"The only site reliability engineer left at Twitter when Elon said he wanted to do another presidential candidate interview using Spaces," commented a person.

Me trying to join the @elonmusk and @realDonaldTrump twitter spaces pic.twitter.com/4n8wonbtuK

— wrld (@wrld_sol) August 13, 2024

Me listening to the twitter space seeing other people not be able to join: pic.twitter.com/1Md1gkhNcM

— Chairman (@WSBChairman) August 13, 2024

A person wrote, "I was really hoping they were well prepared for this one.Would have been a really good look for X. I'm definitely disappointed and I won't be listening to the replay. Spaces just aren't special as reruns. They need to figure that out."

A cyberattack isn't quite the same as a “glitch”

— ??@SUSYKOOL/ZEOLIARMY?????? ?? (@sianetta) August 13, 2024

"Oh well. It's hard to let in 20 million plus at one time. Cry more. It's on now and going smoothly," said a person.

https://ift.tt/yvcXGC0 August 13, 2024 at 07:50AM NDTV News-Offbeat https://www.ndtv.com