We know that is what he said immediately, but he also said they could get it started in a few minutes by capping the attendance
Musk claimed they tested with 8M, but the actual attendance was around 115k iirc. It makes me wonder if they tested with internal connections and not through the full production network path in a truly global distributed setup including network and packet failures.
The other thing to consider is the history of Spaces, notably the DeSantis incident which went poorly as well. It is notoriously a low quality audio experience.
Musk claimed they tested with 8M, but the actual attendance was around 115k iirc. It makes me wonder if they tested with internal connections and not through the full production network path in a truly global distributed setup including network and packet failures.
The other thing to consider is the history of Spaces, notably the DeSantis incident which went poorly as well. It is notoriously a low quality audio experience.