Post by Bradley K. ShermanRapid unscheduled disassembly.
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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 immediately and didn't begin until 42
| minutes later.
| ...
| 18 minutes after the conversation was supposed to begin,
| Musk claimed that X was the target of a "massive DDOS
| attack" that had made it impossible for the Space to
| proceed as planned.
|
| The rest of X appears to be working normally, however, and
| a source at the company confirmed to The Verge that there
| wasn't actually a denial-of-service attack. Another X
| staffer said there was a "99 percent" chance Elon was lying
| about an attack.
| ...
<https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24219121/donald-trump-elon-musk-interview-x-twitter-crashes>
--bks