3 Takeaways Musk Talks With Trump
Musk blamed an apparent distributed denial-of-service attack on the platform for the program’s glitchy start.
Elon Musk gave former President Donald Trump a warm welcome during a talk on the platform formerly known as Twitter after technical difficulties delayed the event by more than half an hour.
Musk called the event on X a “conversation” and not an “interview” so that “people understand how @realDonaldTrump talks when it’s a conversation, rather than an interview.”
“Nobody is quite themselves in an interview, so it’s hard to understand what they’re really like,” Musk added.
Musk, it should be noted, has endorsed Trump for president and reportedly pledged to commit about $45 million a month to a new pro-Trump super PAC – a badly needed cash infusion into an effort that has struggled financially due to Trump’s spiraling legal bills. Add to that, the introduction into the race of Kamala Harris as her party’s nominee energized Democrats and invigorated their fundraising efforts.
“America is at a fork in the road, and I think … you are the path to prosperity, and I think Kamala is the opposite,” Musk told Trump on Monday evening.
Here are three things to know about the “conversation” between Trump and Musk:
Technical Difficulties Plague Platform
Musk blamed an apparent distributed denial-of-service attack on the platform for the program’s late start. A DDOS attack “targets websites and servers by disrupting network services in an attempt to exhaust an application’s resources,” according to Microsoft.
“There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on X. Working on shutting it down,” Musk said. “Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.”
He added that technicians tested the system with 8 million users earlier Monday. Trump tried to spin the development as a positive, telling Musk: “congratulations on breaking every record in the book tonight.”
But it wasn’t the first time the platform has had technical difficulties in the face of a political event. Last year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis used Musk’s site to announce his presidential bid in a disastrous event plagued with technical glitches. Read More – US President Election 2024 रिपब्लिकन उम्मीदवार Donald Trump ने सर्च इंजन गूगल को धमकी दी है।