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DeSantis roasted for Twitter outage – what few heard
Say what you will about the botched launch of Twitter Spaces Ron DeSantisof the presidential campaign, it certainly made some great zingers. One of the best came from the surprisingly fiery Twitter account of Joe Bidenwho grabbed the glitches to direct supporters to his fundraising page:
Later that evening, they used the botched launch and previous statements by DeSantis to produce a video mocking the governor of Florida:
DeSantis paid the price for the Twitter outage. According to CNN, there were few actual listeners left when the Spaces event finally began:
CNN’s Town Hall with Trump averaged 3.3 million *concurrent* viewers. Concurrent viewers are not equal to total viewers. They measure different things. Twitter’s feed crashed with only a few hundred thousand concurrent listeners. In the end when it was running it had ~200k. pic.twitter.com/GA6DywJHRg
—Olivier Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 25, 2023
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Ron DeSantis presidential campaign tries to spin Twitter launch debacle, pointing reporters at governor interview with Fox News later last night.
“We had a huge audience. It was the biggest they had ever had. It broke the Twitter space. And so we’re really excited about the enthusiasm,” DeSantis said.
A replay of the event is prominently displayed on DeSantis’ official campaign website, where it is titled “THE ADVERT THAT CRASHED THE INTERNET.”
For all the yuks generated by the botched launch of Ron DeSantis’ Twitter Spaces campaign, The Guardian’s Richard Luscombe reports that activist groups in Florida are warning there’s nothing funny about the governor’s policies targeting people transgender and other minorities:
Minority groups and others in Florida trampled by Ron DeSantis on his march to a race for the White House warn of democracy in jeopardy nationally.
The right-wing Republican governor’s announcement on Wednesday that he was seeking his party’s presidential nomination in 2024 sparked anger and a new promise of resistance from transgender rights advocates, immigrant organizations and civil rights and voting groups in Florida, which have borne the brunt of his extremist policies. and legislation.
A prominent Democratic state congresswoman has called Florida a “canary in the coal mine” for the entire United States as DeSantis prepares to sell his far-right brand on the national stage.
For those who missed it, and that was probably most people, The Guardian’s Dan Milmo has some insight into exactly what happened when Ron DeSantis tried to launch his presidential campaign on Twitter:
The launch of Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign on Twitter was marred by technical issues on Wednesday night.
Twitter owner Elon Musk has sought to diversify Twitter’s audience, describing himself as a “free speech absolutist” while reinstating previously banned accounts such as Donald Trump’s. However, it has also significantly reduced costs, leading to warnings that the platform could become prone to outages more regularly.
Here, we answer questions about what happened to DeSantis’ launch and why.
Not to be outdone by Joe Biden’s social media team, Donald Trump posted a parody of DeSantis’ Spaces Twitter campaign launch on his Instagram account yesterday – featuring the Governor of Florida alongside the Devil, Adolf Hitler and the global fixations of right-wing conspiracy George Soros and Klaus Schwab.
It nevertheless manages to be quite funny:
From Donald Trump’s instagram account: fake video of Twitter spaces (including fake DeSantis audio) with DeSantis, Elon, George Soros, Hitler, FBI, Dick Cheney, The Devil and others.
—Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) May 25, 2023
DeSantis roasted for Twitter outage – what few heard
Say what you will about the botched launch of Twitter Spaces Ron DeSantisof the presidential campaign, it certainly made some great zingers. One of the best came from the surprisingly fiery Twitter account of Joe Bidenwho grabbed the glitches to direct supporters to his fundraising page:
Later that evening, they used the botched launch and previous statements by DeSantis to produce a video mocking the governor of Florida:
DeSantis paid the price for the Twitter outage. According to CNN, there were few actual listeners left when the Spaces event finally began:
CNN’s Town Hall with Trump averaged 3.3 million *concurrent* viewers. Concurrent viewers are not equal to total viewers. They measure different things. Twitter’s feed crashed with only a few hundred thousand concurrent listeners. In the end when it was running it had ~200k. pic.twitter.com/GA6DywJHRg
—Olivier Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 25, 2023
After battling Twitter glitches, DeSantis’ next fight is with Donald Trump
Hello, readers of the American political blog. Ron DeSantisThe presidential campaign kickoff descended into farce on Wednesday night, after the governor of Florida opted to formalize the candidacy with an announcement on Twitter’s Spaces audio streaming feature. But there’s a reason why White House hopefuls typically reveal such things in speeches to cheering crowds, rather than with appearances on social media notoriously unreliable lately: The former are much harder to mess up. And that’s exactly what happened on Twitter, with DeSantis silenced for a few minutes while website workers could be heard trying to fix whatever was wrong with Spaces, before rebooting. event and many listeners went elsewhere. So it’s safe to say his campaign launch didn’t go well, and the Twitter debacle will fuel talk shows and rival candidates for weeks, if not months, to come. DeSantis’ ultimate goal, however, remains the same: he has yet to bridge the wide gap in Republican voter support between him and donald trump if he ever wants to be on the same ballot as Joe Biden.
Here’s what else is happening today:
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Debt ceiling negotiations are underway between Republicans in the House of Representatives and the White House. The first days of June remain the estimated deadline for a deal to be struck to avoid a catastrophic default. There hasn’t been a breakthrough yet, but we’ll let you know if there’s one within reach.
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Today is the third anniversary of the death of George Floyd.and Biden issued a statement asking Americans to “build on the progress we have made so far and recommit to the work we must continue to do every day to change hearts and minds and change people’s lives. laws and policies”.
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will brief reporters at 1 p.m. Eastern Time.
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