Elon Musk wants to turn Twitter into a 'digital town square,' but his much-publicized Twitter Spaces kickoff event, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announcing his run for president, struggled with technical glitches and a near half-hour delay Tuesday.
Twitter, now X. Corp, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk poses prior to his talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, May 15, 2023 at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
"There's so many people," said host David Sacks amid the disruptions. "We've got so many people here that we are kind of melting the servers, which is a good sign." Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, tweeted, "We had more people join when I played Among Us," referencing the popular video game.
But he seems to mainly be courting conservatives and Republicans lately, referring to Democrats and liberals as infected by the "woke mind virus" and reinstating extremist accounts that were banned by Twitter's previous administration. "It's much worse for DeSantis than it is for Musk," said Jo-Ellen Pozner, a business professor at Santa Clara University, noting that just a month ago Musk's SpaceX launched a rocket that exploded minutes after its launch from Texas. After the explosion, Musk called it "an exciting test launch of Starship! Learned a lot for next test launch in a few months" in a tweet.
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