Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign announcement was mired by repeated technical glitches on Twitter on 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.
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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Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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