Ron DeSantis Announced He's Running For President On Twitter And It Was A Disaster

On Wednesday evening, arsenic previously reported, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced his statesmanlike run alongside Elon Musk via Twitter Spaces. But because Twitter is simply a elephantine trainwreck these days—held together pinch glue and a fewer overworked labor who haven’t yet been fired —the full point was a mess, filled pinch glitches and crashes.

DeSantis has been successful nan news precocious because, among different things, he’s picked a conflict pinch Florida’s largest employer, The Walt Disney Company. The warfare isn’t going good for him, arsenic Disney’s lawyers proceed to outsmart nan man and his weird faces. But whatever, DeSantis has bigger plans. To denote his bid to go nan adjacent president of nan United States, DeSantis took to Twitter Spaces. And things conscionable sewage worse from there.

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, 20+ minutes aft nan online watercourse was group to start, DeSantis was incapable to moreover speak astatine each arsenic nan Twitter Spaces room continued to crash. Listeners reported tons of echoing arsenic DeSantis and others struggled to enactment logged successful and speak. Also successful attendance was Twitter’s CEO Elon Musk, who tried to blasted each of nan method problems connected Twitter’s servers being overloaded by each nan group trying to subordinate nan stream. Surely it didn’t person thing to do pinch all nan group he fired who were really responsible for moving Twitter’s tech infrastructure.

Others reported proceeding microphone feedback and agelong stretches of soundlessness and pharynx clearing. After astir different 21 minutes aliases truthful nan watercourse ended, and a pre-recorded connection was uploaded instead.

During nan conversation—when group could really perceive what was being said— Republican philanthropist and watercourse moderator David Sacks apparently claimed that this grounded Twitter Space was nan largest group that has “ever met online.” When he said this location were astir 100,000 listeners.

U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quickly pointed retired that she had much viewers subordinate erstwhile she famously played Among Us connected Twitch pinch Pokimane and Hasan Piker. That watercourse racked up complete 400,000 viewers astatine 1 point. For whose keeping people astatine home, that’s a batch much than nan 100,000 trying (and failing) to perceive to DeSantis regurgitate his aforesaid aged reside astir nan dangers of nan “woke mind virus.”.

So yeah, a beautiful unsmooth commencement to a statesmanlike campaign. But hey astatine slightest group will retrieve it. That’s for sure.