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Why is Elon Musk's X struggling with technical problems?

The billionaire's interview with Donald Trump was delayed while the platform struggled with tech issues.

Meanwhile Alp Toker, director of Netblocks, said the social media platform's explanation of how the issue was fixed "isn't particularly consistent" with a DDoS attack. DDoS attack or not, though, the end result is the same - despite his ambitions to build an "everything app", Elon Musk's X carries on looking like being an unreliable platform for the kind eye-catching content it wants to be home to. He may be the richest man in the world, but - as his glitch-prone conversation with Donald Trump showed - it seems Elon Musk still can't overcome X's technical problems.

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