During last night’s chinwag between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, some people were less focused on what the ex-US president was saying – and more on how he said it.
The much-hyped online chat couldn’t have got off to a worse start, with tech issues frustrating the billionaire twosome.
For around 47 minutes, people hoping to listen to the streamed conversation were instead met with an error message featuring a monkey emoji.
And when the feed finally kicked off on social media site X – still known to most of the world as Twitter – those tuning in were treated to a few minutes of heavy breathing before anyone spoke.
Musk, who owns X as well as carmaker Tesla and spacecraft manufacturer SpaceX, began the two-hour blether with an apology for those who waited.
‘We unfortunately had a massive distributed denial-of-service attack against our servers and saturated all of our data lines. Hundreds of gigabits of data …