Bizzare! Elon Musk Confused over X's Technical Issues
Elon Musk, a seasoned billionaire and tech entrepreneur, doesn't seem to be able to resolve X's technical problems, as seen by his awkward and inconsistent exchange with Donald Trump.
Despite being one of the wealthiest person on the planet, Elon Musk appears unable to fix X's technical issues, as evidenced by his awkward and unreliable interaction with Donald Trump.
Due to technical difficulties on the platform, Mr. Musk's interview with the presidential candidate was postponed by forty minutes. This was hardly X's first public mishap.
Ron DeSantis, the Governor of Florida, tried to run for president on X alongside Elon Musk in May 2023. However, issues dogged the interview from the start, much like his ultimately futile campaign. Gremlins prevented Mr. DeSantis from even starting his address; instead, he made him wait.
The day before his interview with Mr. Trump, Mr. Musk said that he would be doing "system scaling tests" on "Spaces," the moniker for X's voice chat function. It appeared that he was taking heed of the warning. But even with that preparation, he was ill-prepared for the subsequent technical issues, since 1.3 million people were reportedly listening in at one point, according to Reuters. The word "crashed" quickly became popular on X as people started posting about the well-publicized catastrophe. Naturally, some seized the chance to criticize Mr. Musk. Some misrepresented the interview, saying it "crashed the internet" due to how popular it was. However, Mr. Musk blamed a cyberattack for something quite different.
The director of Netblocks, Alp Toker, stated that the social networking site's justification for fixing the problem "isn't particularly consistent" with a DDoS attack. "Given Elon Musk's claim that X had to limit the number of live listeners to mitigate the issue, we can infer that the outage correlated to the number of live listeners," stated Mr. Toker. "Limiting the number of legitimate users isn't an ordinary mitigation for DDoS attacks and wouldn't usually help... so Mr Musk's own statement suggests that the platform might have been struggling with overall listener capacity." Additionally, Cisco ThousandEyes, a network intelligence business, stated that there was insufficient evidence to support a cyberattack.
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