Discussion

• Vox Ben Jacobs on x

  Ron DeSantis's very online and very disastrous 2024 campaign announcement

• UPROXX UPROXX on x

  Trump And Biden Both Dragged Ron DeSantis' Trainwreck Of A Twitter Campaign Launch

• @sandofsky@mastodon.social Ben Sandofsky on mastodon

  Making Twitter the official platform of Desantis is the best way to drive off one of the last big advertisers, Disney.  Masterful gambit, sir.

• @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org Lauren Weinstein on mastodon

  Our top story: Via a #Twitter Space with Elon Musk, Ron DeSantis announces that he's “Ru in to b pre dent of th Un ted ates!”

• @davepell@mastodon.social Dave Pell on mastodon

  Sounds like DeSantis and Musk should have hosted their show on Truth Social servers.

• @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org Lauren Weinstein on mastodon

  The current FOX News site top story: “Amateur Hour: Much-hyped Ron DeSantis presidential announcement a disaster on Twitter”.

• @Popehat@mastodon.social Ken White on mastodon

  In the meantime, if you would like to know what a DeSantis-Musk conversation is like, imagine the alien wearing Vincent D'Onofrio's skin attempting to banter with the “wish him away into the cornfield” child from Twilight Zone

• @joebiden Joe Biden on x

  This link works: [Donate to reelect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris]

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  David Sacks just ludicrously made up that Ron DeSantis' Twitter space was the largest group that “has ever met online.” There are 100,000 people in this thing.

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  “probably the biggest room that has ever been assembled online,” says David Sacks of this new Twitter Space with Ron DeStantis and Elon Musk (first one didn't work and was canceled) i have been in bigger Clubhouse rooms https://twitter.com/...

• @jason @jason on x

  I wonder if this is a DDOS attack

• @lindayacc Linda Yaccarino on x

  Tonight's reflection — we just heard a rare and unscripted conversation, on a range of important topics, with a Presidential candidate — all launched on Twitter. That's historical. Let's do more. Freedom of speech is priceless. @elonmusk, @DavidSacks, @RonDeSantis

• @davidsacks David Sacks on x

  @GovRonDeSantis announced he's running for president on Twitter. This was by far the biggest room ever held on social media. Twitter performed great after some initial scaling challenges. Thanks Twitter Team for adapting so quickly to make history! https://twitter.com/...

• @aoc Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on x

  We had more people join when I played Among Us 👾 https://twitter.com/...

• @rondesantis Ron DeSantis on x

  I'm running for president to lead our Great American Comeback. [video]

• @rmac18 Ryan Mac on x

  Twitter employees tell me that Musk's sharing of the DeSantis Twitter Space caused an overload as more than 600k people tried to listen. It crashed Twitter's iOS app and caused its website to glitch. Also teams did no advance prep for today's space. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  A 🧵: I like Linda a lot and think she has been a canny media exec and a strong ad gexecutive. Elon is lucky to have her. But this tweet feels all wrong, since if this obvious debacle — where the medium became the message in a spectacularly cloddish way — happened on NBC when she.…

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  Disaster. He's killed the bird. Can't do quality. Can't do mass media. Doesn't have the data. Enjoy the silence, advertisers.

• @jordanuhl @jordanuhl on x

  Ron DeSantis' Twitter Spaces campaign launch has, so far, featured: -Several minutes of silence -Random throat clearing -Muffled commentary from Elon Musk about why Spaces isn't working -Hosts, including DeSantis disappearing Great start to his campaign! [video]

• @acyn @acyn on x

  Ingraham: What happened? Sacks: We had a million people simultaneously trying to get into a Twitter space.. and DeSantis just melted the servers. We had so much interest — I mean, I have to hand it to him, normally it takes a Kardashian to do that.. [video]

• @severalnitrogen @severalnitrogen on x

  On DeSantis' site theres a scrolling bar of names who have “just donated” However its just a scrolling list of the same names repeating [image]

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  Fox News' homepage really twisting the knife on Elon Musk right now. The homepage even has a “Breaking News” alert pop-up dunking on Twitter's failure. [image]

• @jonstewart Jon Stewart on x

  It'd be like if the escalator had just stopped halfway down...

• @meidastouch @meidastouch on x

  Wow. The Twitter Spaces launch for Ron DeSantis with Elon Musk is an absolute disaster. The Spaces function kept glitching out. When they finally were able to get the functionality to work, there was massive echo and feedback before the entire session went silent again. One of...…

• @tomgara Tom Gara on x

  BuzzFeed exploding the watermelon hit 820,000 concurrent viewers in 2016 https://twitter.com/...

• @mattbinder Matt Binder on x

  this is hands down one of the most bizarre campaign videos i've ever seen why does random stock footage of Elon Musk take up more than half of your presidential campaign announcement video. is he your running mate? https://twitter.com/...

• @passantino Jon Passantino on x

  Why did Twitter Spaces totally meltdown tonight with just a few hundred thousand listeners? It's a “janky” product. “Spaces was largely a prototype, not a finished product,” a former Twitter employee tells @donie. “It's a beta test that never ended.” https://www.cnn.com/...

• @emilybell Emily Bell on x

  ....An event which showcased technical incompetence, delivered with the charisma and panache of a 4th quarter earnings call, and which had the seemingly impossible outcome of making people think more positively about Donald Trump and Fox News... https://twitter.com/...

• @profgalloway Scott Galloway on x

  Last night, I announced my candidacy for (FL) Senate on Foursquare. Dozens of people on hand, crashed the site.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  All Presidential candidates are most welcome on this platform

• @mattbinder Matt Binder on x

  Elon Musk did that Twitter Space with the BBC last month and there were like one or two million people listening at midnight what in the world did Musk do to Twitter Spaces since then that they couldn't handle roughly 600k listeners

• @jmood88 @jmood88 on x

  https://twitter.com/... [video]

• @semaforben Ben Smith on x

  Nobody is happier than Fox News, which is going to make sure every Republican primary voter sees this one [image]

• @sam_alberti Sam Alberti on x

  Ron DeSantis' campaign launch: [image]

• @lancestorm Lance Storm on x

  Well you do want these things to be memorable. 🤷‍♂️ https://twitter.com/...

• @matthiasellis Matthew Ellis on x

  the second after DeSantis left the Twitter space the first voice said “wow. incredibly boring” lmao

• @maxwellfrostfl Maxwell Alejandro Frost on x

  one of the worst websites I've ever seen [image]

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  Ok now Joe from Scranton has entered the room with an epic dunk. https://twitter.com/...

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  No advance prep? Idiot. https://twitter.com/...

• @mattbinder Matt Binder on x

  so Twitter couldn't run the DeSantis Twitter Space on Elon's account, had to use David Sacks' much smaller account, and from what I saw barely cracked 250k concurrent listeners... and they're acting like some sort of history was made with that attendance? lol

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  Sean Spicer vibes here https://twitter.com/...

• @patrickruffini Patrick Ruffini on x

  Trump was a political mastermind for his Twitter use, but DeSantis is “way too online.”

• @emilygorcenski Emily Gorcenski on x

  Wow so you mean deleting the data centers and firing everyone led to major technical issues during a key launch? If only someone could have foreseen this! https://cnn.com/...

• @ettingermentum @ettingermentum on x

  This is the full video of DeSantis with Hitler and the devil posted on Trump's Instagram [video]

• @eoinhiggins_ Eoin Higgins on x

  Man what https://twitter.com/... [image]

• @briannawu Brianna Wu on x

  As a loyal Democrat, thank you @elonmusk for kneecapping the DeSantis campaign right out of the gate. Flatline Ron will have a hard time coming back from this. 😂 https://www.theverge.com/...

• @brianstelter Brian Stelter on x

  NYT: Twitter employees “had been alarmed by Mr. Musk's turn into politics and whether the social media site could handle the influx of traffic, three employees said. There was no planning for what are known as ‘site reliability issues’ for the event...” https://www.nytimes.com/..…

• @benshapiro Ben Shapiro on x

  Tonight was a perfect encapsulation of the campaign. If you're obsessed with the optics of the Twitter Spaces glitch, then you're probably not going to vote DeSantis. If you're interested in political substance, DeSantis is likely your candidate.

• @bestofdyingtwit @bestofdyingtwit on x

  elon just said “i'd like to introduce ron” and then THERE WAS AN ECHO LIKE IT WAS MOCKING HIM “i'd like to introduce ron” and then he said “i've never seen anything like this before” and the echo said “i've never seen anything like this before” and then my app crashed again ahaha

• @rmac18 Ryan Mac on x

  I think she might be leaving something out https://twitter.com/...

• @esqueer_ Alejandra Caraballo on x

  Oh my god, they didn't even stress test or prep live spaces ahead of time for this. This is one of the most incompetent moments in tech history. https://twitter.com/...

• @lib_crusher @lib_crusher on x

  Trump was barely online. He just posted a lot. He genuinely doesn't have the attention span to wade deep into the psychotic culture war stuff even though he probably agrees with it. The DeSantis operation is all about attracting and appeasing those online culture warriors https:/…

• @chrislhayes Chris Hayes on x

  One thing you learn when you start doing TV is just the awe-inspiring amount of technology and devoted labor that goes into broadcasting to million of people live. It obviously feels invisible and seamless as a consumer, but it's an enormous undertaking.

• @mat @mat on x

  Fantastic job all around https://twitter.com/...

• @junlper @junlper on x

  ok i give up on the ron desantis presidential campaign space, this is a disaster of a campaign launch, looks like desantis lost connection, no one in there is talking now, sitting in the space has crashed my app 3 times. i cannot wait for trumps statement on this mess

• @mehdirhasan Mehdi Hasan on x

  Biden is trolling Musk and DeSantis in real time. https://twitter.com/...

• @francisxwolf Francis Wolf on x

  he just destroyed ron and elon [video]

• @kenklippenstein Ken Klippenstein on x

  Evergreen [image]

• @populismupdates @populismupdates on x

  Against all odds we could actually have a funny campaign season [image]

• @molly0xfff Molly White on x

  “multiply a half million people in a room by an account with over 100M followers, which is Elon's account, I think that creates just a scalability level that was unprecedented.” - tech expert David Sacks, who is definitely not just grasping in the dark https://www.theverge.com/..…

• @marionawfal Mario Nawfal on x

  Trump just posted this video making fun of DeSantis. I have to admit, I couldn't stop laughing😂 Trump spaces soon? [video]

• @acabylonbee @acabylonbee on x

  can't believe this is how he announced [image]

• @pewilliams_ Paul E Williams on x

  So far (5 minutes) on this twitter space, the app has crashed 4 times, DeSantis has been demoted from speaker to listener 3 times, and Elon and David seem to have their mics in the same room pointing at each other so there's constantly feedback. https://twitter.com/...

• @gravitysra1nbow James on x

  YEAH SO DESANTIS TRIED ANNOUNCING HIS CAMPAIGN ON TWITTER SPACES BUT IT WAS A TOTAL DISASTER WITH DAVID SACKS RAMBLING ABOUT DOGECOIN AND IT CRASHED LIKE 5 TIMES—NOW TRUMP JUST DROPPED A PARODY OF IT WITH AN AI VERSION OF ADOLF HITLER AND DICK CHENEY [image]

• @jordanuhl @jordanuhl on x

  Doing an audio-only campaign launch on a notoriously buggy platform really underscores just how stupid DeSantis is. Spaces buckling under the weight of just 300K users when even the worst performing cable news primetime hour gets 2x+ views, doesn't crash, and offers video.

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  I will say that Twitter is a great platform for content on Elon's various and sundry fuckups running Twitter. https://twitter.com/... [image]