pic.twitter.com/FQw0hWpvNR— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) May 24, 2023
Posted on 05/24/2023 4:44:23 PM PDT by conservative98
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement was mired by repeated technical glitches on Twitter Wednesday evening, in a black eye for the social media platform.
The highly-anticipated announcement, set to be made via a conversation with Twitter CEO Elon Musk and tech entrepreneur David Sacks on Twitter's "Spaces" feature, was delayed as it appeared the platform was overwhelmed. Twitter's mobile app repeatedly crashed and users complained that they were unable to hear the broadcast.
Whoops! We couldn't access this Tweet. Nearly 700,000 users logged in to hear the announcement roughly 20 minutes after it was launched. The event was then abruptly shut down without explanation.
"The servers are straining somewhat," Musk was heard saying at one point.
Twitter users pummeled Musk over the botched rollout, and Democrats were quick to capitalize.
Biden tweeted out a fundraising page with the caption: "This link works."
"Failure to launch," political commentator Kimberly Guilfoyle tweeted. "Trump 2024."
"This is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to a presidential candidate and it’s not close. Just hold a rally," David Marcus, another commentator, tweeted.
And the MAGA War Room tweeted an image of the Twitter Spaces with the words "failing to launch…" emblazoned across the top.
"This is aurally amateurish and technically raw. It will be a meme, and RDS's opponents will make it into a metaphor," Noah Rothman, a conservative columnist, added. "But if the campaign is competent, more conventional table-setting events will render it a bad memory in short order. Given the foreseeable errors, though, big if."
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pic.twitter.com/FQw0hWpvNR— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) May 24, 2023
If it was Trump, you’d be like “he’s so popular Twitter can’t handle it, this is just amazing!”
That is literally what happened here, too many people watching.
Trump would have held a rally
It isn’t often that 700,000 twitter users want to access a Space at the same time. Presumably Musk’s people will learn much.
Or marxist sabotage. DeSantis should not be going on Fox though.
Ron DeSantis is currently reading a script on this Twitter Space with @elonmusk. Embarrassing— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) May 24, 2023
Is this an AI version of Ron DeSantis?! So scripted and boring!— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) May 24, 2023
Who told Ron DeSantis to give a speech— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) May 24, 2023
It sounds like a chat GPT version of Ron DeSantis, a man who already sounds like a robot. https://t.co/2MEZiO4Xcb— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) May 24, 2023
This Twitter Spaces is only going to make people like DeSantis less. Wow— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) May 24, 2023
.@elonmusk said that this wasn’t going to be scripted.
I’m not saying that Elon lied. I’m guessing that Ron lied to Elon. His “announcement” was totally scripted and every single question has been run by Ron because he’s had scripted answers to every question so far.— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) May 24, 2023
>> Trump would have held a rally
Exactly. Flesh and blood relationship between like-minded Americans and their servant-leader, not face-on-a-screen “media” “consumed” by individuals staring at a device.
DeSantis Twitter Space Interview Sounds Scripted.
He seems to be reading of a pre-prepared script.
Let’s see if there are any ‘unprepared’ questions. pic.twitter.com/0k61DA73xj— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) May 24, 2023
DeSantis is reading pre written answers to inorganic questions.
Nobody is going to fall for this unless they're suffering from TDS.#DeSaster— Brenden Dilley (@WarlordDilley) May 24, 2023
DeSantis is literally reading off note cards. Is this a joke?— Gavin Mario Wax 🇺🇸 🗽🍊 (@GavinWax) May 24, 2023
Ron DeSantis Twitter space was promoted as a 'non-scripted event' & said there would be questions from the audience.
Instead, we got DeSantis reading from his notecards and pre-screened questions from politicians/journalist.
Jeb Bush level of energy.— Grand Old Patriots🇺🇸 (@GrandOlPatriots) May 24, 2023
Maybe he should have broadcast his announcement on AM radio.
DeSantis is making JEB! look high energy right now.— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 24, 2023
A little birdie pooped on Ron D? Get used to it.
'Biggest fail in campaign launches in history': DeSantis mocked for shambolic Twitter launch | Daily Mail Online https://t.co/Xgg4Ov6hSz— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) May 24, 2023
DeSantics didn’t hold a rally because the crowd wouldn’t show up. There’s a big difference between viewing an online announcement vs having to travel and park and take a lot of time out of one’s day to support.
What a disaster for this poser.
Flesh and blood relationship between like-minded Americans
Is how you energize people to vote. Talking heads are just, well, talking heads.
I have voted for DeSantis before. Generally like the man, but his current “performance “ is underwhelming to me.
Maybe some others find all of this current and exciting. In a “Dubya” Bush kind of way, sure.
DeSantis KO's himself!
Bewahahahahah.
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