X owner Elon Musk hosted a Spaces conversation with Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump Monday, and the discussion featured a massive audience.
According to the social media platform, more than 73 million listened into the Spaces event in the nearly three-hour timeframe it was live. The event was scheduled to begin at 8 PM ET. However, technical issues delayed the discussion between Musk and Trump.
Musk claimed that the company saw a “massive DDoS attack against our servers” that led to the delay. However, reports have surfaced claiming employees of the organization believe there is a “99% chance Elon is lying” about the attack, and rather that the company’s servers were simply overloaded by the sheer number of users attempting to listen to the conversation. Elon Musk stated the company tested its Spaces capabilities with 8 million listeners before the conversation with Donald Trump began.
During that same three-hour window, X reports there were 4 million posts to the platform about the discussion, which generated an additional 998 million views.
The event set a record for the largest Space in X history, as it eclipsed more than 1.3 million concurrent listeners, and steadily featured more than 1 million listeners throughout the conversation.
It marked a return to the social media platform for Donald Trump after only tweeting on previous time — a photo of his Georgia mugshot — since his account was reactivated by Musk after he purchased the platform in 2022. Donald Trump was previously suspended by what was then know as Twitter after the January 6th Insurrection.
After the event, Elon Musk shared that he would be “happy to host Kamala (Harris) on X Spaces too.”
