The billionaire's interview with Donald Trump was delayed while the platform struggled with tech issues.
He may be the richest man in the world, but - as his glitch-prone conversation with Donald Trump showed - it seems Elon Musk still can't overcome X's technical problems.
It seemed to be a cautionary tale that Mr Musk was heeding - the day before his interview with Mr Trump he said he would be performing "system scaling tests" on "Spaces" - the name for X's audio chat feature. A distributed denial of service attack - or DDoS for short - is an attempt to overload a website, which makes it hard to use or otherwise inaccessible..Meanwhile, experts are split.
Meanwhile Alp Toker, director of Netblocks, said the social media platform's explanation of how the issue was fixed "isn't particularly consistent" with a DDoS attack. “Spaces has historically folded when large number of users have entered this area of X", said Jake Moore, Global Cybersecurity Advisor at cyber security firm ESET.
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