Elon’s launch of DeSantis announcement biggest Twitter screwup ever?

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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! pic.twitter.com/Zppxlk5HkN

— jordan (@JordanUhl) May 24, 2023

No one does it like Bill pic.twitter.com/aWsbP92TiO

— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) May 24, 2023

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://t.co/K4feksLqUd

— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) May 25, 2023

AlterNet: “'A clown show': Steve Bannon lambastes DeSantis’ 'historic screwup' of a campaign launch” #PatriotTakes https://t.co/lzsCN2lMUg

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 25, 2023

Trump posts video to Truth Social contrasting the two launches… pic.twitter.com/rKCqBRFUkD

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 24, 2023

BREAKING: The Jan. 6 rioter who put his feet on a desk in then-Speaker Pelosi’s office has been sentenced to 4.5 years in prison. https://t.co/bHFQ4m4sxn

— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 24, 2023

Kandiss Taylor, who ran for governor in 2022 and recently became a Georgia GOP district chair, is a flat earther: "Everywhere there's globes … and that's what they do to brainwash." pic.twitter.com/PEz1sqOTvA

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) May 22, 2023

Smart people, rich people, successful people were sucked into election-denying MAGA, Covid denial and QAnon. These ideas changed them. Despite all their success and experience, they started making bad decisions.

That's the journey we can see Elon Musk is on now.

— Arieh Kovler (@ariehkovler) May 24, 2023