X’s live streaming infrastructure failed yet again at a high-profile moment for the company. Elon Musk, the owner of X, was supposed to interview Donald Trump to live Vacancies begin Monday at 8:00 PM ET. However, the stream crashed many times and became completely unavailable for many users.
Musk he claimed said the failure was due to a “massive DDOS”. [distributed denial of service] Attack on X” and the company “tested the system with 8 million simultaneous listeners earlier today”. Instead, only a “small number of people” will be able to listen to the chat live. As of 8:30 p.m. ET, the live stream had not yet begun. “Crash”, “Unable” and “Twitter is disabled” on the platform.
Those who were able to join the stream were treated to a few minutes of complete silence amid nearly half an hour of music. The live stream finally started at 8:40 PM ET. “All of our data lines were saturated, basically like hundreds of gigabits of data,” Musk said. “We think we’ve got most of it covered.” Musk did not explain how a DDOS attack could target just one specific feature on the service without affecting other aspects of X’s app or website.
It’s not the first time a high-profile live broadcast in the gaps has run into technical difficulties. Ron DeSantis last year he tried to announce During a live chat with Musk on X, he made a short-term bid for the presidency, but that broadcast was also delayed after repeated crashes. Musk said at the time that Twitter’s servers “kind of had a meltdown.” Musk’s biographer then informed It said the issues were the result of months of instability in Twitter’s systems after Musk ordered his cousins to hastily dismantle one of the company’s data centers.
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