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X’s livestreaming infrastructure appears to have failed again during a high-profile moment for the company: X owner Elon Musk was scheduled to interview Donald Trump. Staying Alive Spaces began streaming at 8pm ET on Monday, but the stream crashed repeatedly, leaving many users unable to access it at all.
mask Claimed The outage was caused by a “massive DDOS attack.” [distributed denial of service] Twitter posted an “Attack on X” tweet, saying it “tested our systems with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier today.” However, only a “small number” of people were able to listen to the conversation live. As of 8:30pm ET, the live stream had not yet begun. “Crash,” “unavailable,” and “Twitter blackout” trended on the platform.
Those who were able to join the stream were greeted with about 30 minutes of hold music, followed by several minutes of complete silence. The livestream finally began at 8:40pm ET. “We were basically saturating all of our data lines with hundreds of gigabits of data,” Musk said. “We think we’ve overcome the majority of that.” Musk did not explain how the DDOS attack was able to target only certain features on the service without affecting other parts of X’s apps and websites.
This isn’t the first time a livestream in the high-profile space has run into technical issues. Last year, Ron DeSantis was trying to announce his short-lived presidential run during a live conversation with Musk on X, but that stream was delayed by multiple crashes. At the time, Musk said Twitter’s servers were “about to melt.” Musk’s biographer later reported that this was due to months of instability in Twitter’s systems after Musk ordered his cousins to quickly dismantle one of the company’s data centers.
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