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DeSantis/Musk event didn’t break the Internet, but it did break Twitter
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DeSantis/Musk event didn’t break the Internet, but it did break Twitter
Enlarge / Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (credit: Scott Olson / Staff | Getty Images North America)
Yesterday, Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis became the first presidential hopeful to announce his campaign on Twitter Spaces, which Elon Musk had touted as a “smart move” for “any candidate” to “get the highest possible audience.”
But instead of making sure that DeSantis’ announcement was delivered to the broadest possible audience, Twitter glitched for nearly 30 minutes, causing more than half of DeSantis’ initial 600,000-strong audience to ditch the audio session, briefly including DeSantis himself, The Washington Post reported. In
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