Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s joint X Spaces appears to have crashed Monday afternoon. The conversation between the owner of X and the former President was scheduled for 5 pm PT, but users received an error message when joining at that time.
“This Space is not available,” said a message on X when trying to join the Space.
The highly anticipated conversation — which has been promoted by Trump and Musk — was supposed to mark the former U.S. president’s return to X.
Trump returned to the social media platform on Monday morning, where he posted for the first time since January 2021 when he was banned from the platform. Some of Trump’s Monday posts promoted the conversation with Elon Musk, while others featured campaign ads and links to the former President’s website. For the last three years, Trump has switched to primarily posting on his own social media platform Truth Social. That said, Trump has been allowed to post on X for nearly two years; shortly after Musk took over Twitter, now X, he reinstated Trump’s Twitter account in November 2022.
Musk claimed “a massive DDOS attack on X” appeared to have occurred, supposedly the cause of the crashed X Space. The owner of X says the social media platform conducted extensive testing earlier today with 8 million concurrent listeners.
This is not the first instance of an X Space crashing when a political campaign tries to use the platform. In May 2023, Twitter’s technical issues interrupted Ron DeSantis’s 2024 campaign announcement during a Twitter Space session with Elon Musk and venture capitalist David Sacks.
As of 5:41 pm PT, the X Space conversation still had not started.
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