Its not just you.
ET, no one was able to actually listen.
And now we know why.
Elon Musk attends ‘Exploring the New Frontiers of Innovation: Mark Read in Conversation with Elon Musk’ session during the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity 2024© Photo by Marc Piasecki/Getty Images
Musk tweeted about the outage at 8:18 p.m., blaming a distributed denial-of-service attack.
There is acting like a massive DDOS attack on X.
Working on shutting it down.
There gives the impression of a massive DDOS attack on X.
Working on shutting it down.
Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.
Interestingly, the Vergereportsa source at X told the news outlet there wasnt actually a DDOS attack.
Musk added that X had tested thesystem with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier today.
The world has 8 billion people, and Twitter reportedly has about 500 million users worldwide.
We will proceed with the smaller number of concurrent listeners at 8:30 p.m.
ET and then post the unedited audio immediately thereafter, Musk wrote in afollow-up.
Ultimately, the interview did finally start around 8:40 p.m. Something very similar happened when Florida Gov.
The video has hundreds of thousands of viewers at the time of this writing.
Do not press any links in that video as they only lead to scams.
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