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Jan 21, 2024 · Muddled messages, hiring too many staffers and even a puzzle — how it all went wrong for DeSantis' presidential bid. Kelsea Petersen / NBC News. Save. Create your free profile or log in to save...
May 25, 2023 · Politics May 25, 2023 12:03 AM EDT. MIAMI (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launched his 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday with firm words but a disastrous Twitter announcement that did...
May 25, 2023 · After the mega-corporation put out a mild statement criticizing the Don’t Say Gay law, DeSantis went nuclear — stripping some of the company’s special tax privileges and leading to an ...
May 25, 2023 · But the unintended effect is to send a message that the candidate is a contrivance. So it was unsurprising that DeSantis would make his announcement on what sounded like an amateur hour. He...
- How Was The Desantis Launch Affected?
- What Caused The Glitches on Spaces?
- Was The Issue Cost Cuts?
- Were The Problems Specific to Spaces?
- Are Twitter’s Problems All Down to Musk?
The Florida governor chose to launch his presidential campaign in Twitter Spaces, a live audio streaming platform that that counts Musk among its fans. However, the DeSantis event appeared to buckle under the weight of demand. By 6.20pm ET it had nearly 600,000 listeners and according to Musk was gaining 50,000 a minute. As the live stream began, t...
According to the participants, the platform seemed to have been overwhelmed by the number of listeners. David Sacks, a Republican donor and friend of Elon Muskwho moderated the audio event, said the servers hosting the event could not cope. “We got so many people here that we are kind of melting the servers, which is a good sign,” he said. Sacks ad...
Since taking over Twitter in October, Musk has cut costs at Twitter severely and says expenditure at the company has fallen from $4.5bn (£3.6bn) to $1.5bn amid warnings from its new owner that the company was on the verge of bankruptcy. This includes cutting server costs by shutting down a data centre in Sacramento, California, one of its three dat...
A former Twitter employee told CNNthat Spaces was a “prototype” and a “janky” tool. “Spaces was largely a prototype, not a finished product,” the former employee told CNN. “It’s a beta test that never ended.” The person, quoted anonymously, said Spaces relied on a combination of Twitter’s technical infrastructure and Amazon servers, describing the ...
It is probably worth a glance at a whistleblowing complaint by Twitter’s former head of security Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, in which he outlines a litany of data and information security failings at the company. He said Twitter was at risk of a data centre failure that would pose a “catastrophic and existential risk for Twitter’s survival”. Whether or n...
May 25, 2023 · Mr. DeSantis is confronting the daunting endeavor of toppling a former president whose belligerence and loyal base of support have discouraged most leading Republicans from making frontal attacks ...
Jan 21, 2024 · DeSantis seemed to think the path to victory was out-flanking Trump on the right: Signing into law a six-week abortion ban, vowing to shoot suspected drug cartel members “stone cold dead” and ...
