redstate.com By Nick Arama
I thought it would be a great nod to new media to hold the announcement of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Twitter, as well as a great boon to the effort of Twitter to have free speech.
But let’s face it, it was more than a little problematic. Twitter Spaces crashed. People trying to get into the Spaces couldn’t get in and kept getting audio feedback.
Warning for graphic language:
#Elon just started a sentence about how pleased he is to welcome #DeSantis, and then… total silence. I need a synonym for “shitshow.”
— Mark Davis (@MarkDavis) May 24, 2023
My Lord, what a cluster. The guy who will put a man on the moon can’t cobble together competent audio. Horrible feedback at first, then it kicked me out twice, now I’m back and it’s silence except for complaining that the servers are stressed. #Elon #DeSantis
— Mark Davis (@MarkDavis) May 24, 2023
#DeSaster trended for a period on Twitter. I like Elon Musk; I think he’s doing great things that have been a benefit to us all. Twitter and new media are the way of the future and are going to supplant the old media. But for this announcement, it did not work very well. If you have all those people dialing in to hear it, you have to have it working. Otherwise, you do DeSantis and the movement of new media a disservice…
