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The live audio broadcast of a verbal exchange between Elon Musk and the former president was delayed as users rushed to pay to access the site.
By Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
Elon Musk’s live verbal exchange with former President Donald J. Trump on line. speech.
Some users who tried to pay attention to the conversation, hosted on the company’s live audio streaming feature called Spaces, were greeted with silence and an error message that read: “Details not available. ” Users reported having difficulty streaming live on desktop and mobile phones. Those who managed to transmit the live broadcast to the frame were greeted with music on hold.
The Spaces event was originally scheduled to begin at 8 p. m. This. The number of participants fluctuated wildly as users fought to access it, ranging from 100,000 to over 700,000 listeners.
Musk blamed this on a cyberattack known as a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack. DDoS attacks involve flooding servers with malicious traffic and taking them offline.
“Worst case scenario, we will continue with a smaller number of live listeners and post the verbal exchange later,” he wrote. It is possible that the attack simply cannot be verified.
Musk claimed that the formula had been “with 8 million concurrent listeners” the day before.
He had spent Sunday night testing the service to make sure he could stay up and running while playing a video game.
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