The Elon / Trump interview on X starts with an immediate tech disaster
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Elon Musk’s “conversation” with former President Donald Trump got off to a rocky start. The interview, which was hosted on X Spaces and scheduled to begin at 8PM ET Monday night, crashed almost immediately.
Those who did manage to get into the Space, including several Verge staffers, said it kicked off with lo-fi techno playing from Trump’s account for roughly 30 minutes.
Eighteen minutes after the conversation was supposed to begin, Musk claimed X was the target of a “massive DDOS attack” that had made it impossible for the Space to proceed as planned. But the rest of X appears to be working normally for Verge staffers, and a source at the company told The Verge there was not a DDOS attack. “I would put DDOS attack reality at 1% chance…