Audio reportedly dropped out when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his 2024 presidential run on Twitter Space. Twitter crashes are now much more likely as Elon Musk has let go 80% of employees since he bought the company last year, critics warn.
DeSantis announced his candidacy in a roughly minute-long Twitter video Wednesday, ahead of a Twitter Spaces discussion with Twitter owner Elon Musk. But the audio stream for the event, scheduled to start at 6 p.m. Eastern time, repeatedly crashed, making it virtually impossible for most people to follow in real time.
Musk has fired or laid off about 80% of Twitter’s employees since buying the company last year and closed one of its key data centers, leading critics to warn that Twitter crashes are now much more likely.Musk canceled the original Spaces after about 20 minutes of glitches and started a new one. The Spaces appeared to be working better by 7 p.m. Eastern, with about 280,000 listeners, though there were still some complaints about audio dropping out.
DeSantis later appeared on Fox News for an interview, with host Trey Gowdy, a former House Republican, quipping: “I can’t promise that I won’t crash, but Fox News will not crash during this interview.” In that interview, DeSantis claimed the server overload was proof of his popularity.
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