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The SpaceX IPO broke Robinhood for some people
Key takeaways
- The brokerage says it saw "record-breaking traffic."
- It looks like trading platform Robinhood may not have been fully prepared for Space X IPO Day.
- Reports of disruptions spiked Friday morning on downdetetcor.com, a website that monitors service outages, peaking at more than 5,500 reports.
The brokerage says it saw "record-breaking traffic."
gguy/Shutterstock. It looks like trading platform Robinhood may not have been fully prepared for Space X IPO Day. Shortly after shares of Elon Musk's rocketship/AI/social media company began trading publicly, users started reporting issues with the brokerage service, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Reports of disruptions spiked Friday morning on downdetetcor.com, a website that monitors service outages, peaking at more than 5,500 reports. There were also numerous reports of Robinhood crashing on Reddit and X. In a post on r/raceto10million, numerous users said they were unable to access Robinhood at all, though some said they were able to place orders for SPCX before the app crashed.
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