Twitter and Elon Musk failed to launch Ron DeSantis campaign due to technical issues

Twitter doesn’t seem like the ideal social network for announcing a candidacy and launching an election campaign, and proof of this is the disastrous event orchestrated by Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis, Florida’s 2024 U.S. governor. back just a few hours on the platform. Specifically, in the space of Twitter, which has been causing problems since minute zero because apparently a large number of users joining the conversation caused the servers to crash.

The problems, we repeat, began from zero minute, when Elon Musk launched space on Twitter and united DeSantis to run for the presidency of the United States. David Sachs, entrepreneur and former PayPal product manager, attended the session as moderator.

At the time Sax began to speak, the users present in the space began to hear creaking soundsIt says edge. A few seconds later, the space was dead silent, Sacks and DeSantis’ accounts moving in and out of the room, turning the microphone on and off, apparently trying to fix the glitches.

Minutes later, Sacks created a new space on Twitter to unite DeSantis and start his speech to run in the 2024 US election. into the room.

“I think it crashed because when you multiply half a million people in a room by an account with over 100 million followers, which is Elon’s account, I think this creates an unprecedented level of scalability. But with my small following, it seems to work a lot better,” Saks said. A few minutes later, Elon Musk confirmed the decisions due to the large number of people who were online. “I had to switch to David because my account was breaking the system,” he said.

600,000 people downvoted one of Twitter’s most popular features

In accordance with edge, 600,000 people were in the Twitter space a few minutes before the organizers closed the session, which included both DeSantis and Elon Musk. This is a significant number of people. However, it’s not much more than other big events from other companies where they didn’t seem to have any technical issues. The above Wednesday cites Travis Scott’s Fortnite concert in 2020 as an example, with 12 million players connected at the same time.

A new Twitter space that could be run normally It already accumulates 2.6 million connected users., and served to cause Elon Musk, who spoke for the Republican parties, and Republican DeSantis, once again, to spread their speech about the apparent freedom of speech. They claimed that social media was censoring right-wing content. They also lashed out at people who fight for LGBTQ+ rights, calling them a “wake-up crowd” whose goal is to destroy the tradition of garrulousness.

Elon Musk, although he clarified that he would not support any specific candidate, advocated for DeSantis to launch an election campaign through a platform such as Twitter. “I think having such a big social media announcement is pretty innovative,” he said. Ironically, this “important announcement” caused one of the social network’s most popular features to stop working for only a small fraction of all connected Twitter users.