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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DeSantis was BORING with the same old talking points BLA, BLA, BLA, another JEB!!
Maybe Ron can blame Trump.
That’s what any Democrat would do if he failed.
Is stopping the Central Bank Currency and esg a Jeb talking point?
Love the smell of schadenfreude in the evening.
Is a campaign launch akin to golf?
Maybe Ron can take a mulligan.
FBI spying, Just Us, and stolen elections have consequences
Turn it on the Marxists, not DeSantis. Let the Primary play out please.
Especially since DeSantis just went straight after esg and the central bank currency.
DeSantis laid out the specifics of what he has done to combat the left. The contrast with Trump couldn’t be stronger. It is obvious that DeSantis, unlike Trump, has a genuine interest in the political process and governing. If you want sunshine pumping reality show politics, though, then I can see why he not your guy.
Trump never broke Twitter. Just sayin'.
Primary where Trump wouldn’t be running.
Again, stolen elections have consequences.
Trump is treated like an incumbent who was robbed by MAGA voters..
The Republican party has a MAGA voter problem.
The Republican party has a Trump problem.
And it’s a beautiful thing to watch
Yes, Trump would have, but that’s just it mean DeSantis or anyone else has to. And yes, this was a disaster. So, for the character question, will he, Trump fashion, blame everyone else, or what?
It’s not beautiful if it helps the marxists.
It wasn’t me. I don’t do social media.
DeSantis has surrounded himself with Bush Globalist Chamber of Commerce GOPe losers!!! Shame!! He had so much promise!!
“Elon is a known pathological liar. I can spell out hundreds of Musk lies if you ever cared to know about this imbecile. He fixes things in reaction... and even then, won’t fix them if they cost too much money, as currently Elon isn’t paying any of his vendors or rent.”
Exactly right. Elon Musk is a Chicom-funded con artist who sells poor quality cars to leftists.
No true conservative would ever want to be associated in a major way with this globalist Chicom stooge.
Doesn’t matter who he blames. The guy is just not ready for prime time. No trial runs, no checking if the site could handle the traffic. Those are simple things any executive should have had done BEFORE.
Instead he has the whole world laughing at him.
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