Elon’s Trump Spaces Chat Is a Total Disaster

Fifteen months after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launched his presidential campaign during an X Spaces event hampered by technical difficulties, Donald Trump’s effort Monday to turn the tide in his presidential campaign ran into a similar problem, with many unable to join his much-hyped live conversation with Elon Musk.

Their Spaces event drew 100,000 listeners at the scheduled start time of 8 p.m. Eastern, but complaints made around the same time made it clear that not all was going to plan, with top trending posts on X including “unable,” “crashed,” and “TwitterBlackout.” Trump’s Spaces post was seen around 11 million times by the top of the tour, with a “details not available” message showing for an unknown number of users.

Musk, aware of the problem, claimed a distributed denial-of-service attack—which is, by definition, malicious in nature—was to blame.

Read more at The Daily Beast.