Elon Musk’s interview with Donald Trump on X marred by technical glitches

An iPhone shows Trump’s X Space being unavailable on the X social media network, in this illustration taken Aug 12, 2024. — Reuters

Elon Musk's much-awaited interview with former US President Donald Trump was marred by technical glitches on Aug 12, with people unable to join the audio conversation on X's Spaces platform.

Eighteen minutes into a conversation that was supposed to start at 8pm EDT, Musk posted on X that the platform was experiencing a “massive” denial-of-service attack (DDOS), which is a federal criminal act that involves flooding a site with data to overwhelm it and knock it offline.