Despite previously having no issues with 3.3 million listeners for a Twitter Spaces event with BBC, it only took a few hundred thousand listeners for the collaboration between Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk to end in abject failure.
The goal was for DeSantis to use the edgy and cool Twitter Spaces tech to launch his campaign. The outcome was an embarrassing display of a billionaire funded national campaign trying too hard to launch a candidacy built on transparent fraud and political pretense. The memes coming from the disastrous event are hilarious, and very fitting.
Fox News – 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.
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. […] Twitter users pummeled Musk over the botched rollout, and Democrats were quick to capitalize. (read more)
WASHINGTON DC – […] The spectacle represented a major embarrassment for both DeSantis and Elon Musk, Twitter’s relatively new owner, one that could haunt the former as he embarks on a bid to win the GOP’s nomination and the latter as he tries to position himself as a political kingmaker in the new media landscape.
DeSantis was slated to do additional interviews on more traditional mediums Wednesday night, where he will likely face questions about his launch on Twitter.
Musk has used Twitter Spaces before as a way to directly reach his 140 million followers and avoid going through outside media. However, his Twitter Spaces — which have drawn tens of thousands of listeners in the past — have been known to shut down suddenly due to technical glitches. Ever since Musk bought Twitter last October, he’s laid off nearly two-thirds of the employees, including large swaths of engineering staff, leading to shutdowns and regular technical problems on the platform.
Wednesday’s Twitter Spaces marks the first time the audio-only feature on the platform has been used for a presidential launch. Spaces first publicly launched in May 2021 and mimicked the audio-only app ClubHouse that launched in April 2020, but has faced a shrinking user base in recent years.
Sacks called the event “the biggest room that’s probably ever been assembled online.” The number of viewers fluctuated throughout the conversation, hitting at least 682,000 at one point, but holding mostly between 200,000 and 300,000 later on. (read more)
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 (@BlueBoxDave) May 24, 2023
Weird how these were already taken off the trending list. I'm sure it's coincidence and not election influencing… https://t.co/QBkf8tI2y2
— David Giglio (@DavidGiglioCA) May 24, 2023
That's odd… 🤔 3.3 million were able to listen to the BBC and Musk Twitter Spaces with no issues.
DeSantis has bad ju-ju… 🥴 pic.twitter.com/0GunBCISOB
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) May 24, 2023
Everybody is laughing at @GovRonDeSantis now lmfao. He canceled an event in his hometown bc he knew he'd get ratio'd at his own launch, so he chose to hide in Twitter spaces & it's been a catastrophic mess. My life is complete 😂🤣 #MAGA #DeSimps https://t.co/Kjejo85e3m
— Tommy Egan (@tommyegan1776) May 24, 2023
https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1661498563120209921
Desantis’ twitter space is a dumpster fire hahahah
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) May 24, 2023
Spotted at the Ron DeSantis event in Miami….
I call for spontaneous Trump Road Rallies around all Meatball events!
Yes!
That’s what Trump Nation did to Biden ha ha ha ha
And I’ll bet that group of blacks hasn’t gone bankrupt this week …
TRUMP 2024!
Cool whip.
🤣🤣🤣
LOL
Arthur Carlson for President.
As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
Classic!😀
Oh Wow. I tuned into Steve Bannon’s Warroom to find out what he was talking about, but when he cut over to the DeSanctus feed, I left to watch Neil Oliver’s Time Travelers.
I’ve already heard enough of the RINO blathering from Karl Rove, et. al., candidates – don’t need any more fake crap.
Control
Alt
De-lete
Is that like De-lete De-Splitter?
Viagra won’t help
-either
Well that is kinda sad…I wish his handlers were a little smarter…and tell him to wait his turn…but they so, so desperately want to get rid of Donald Trump….who effects there bottom line…tragedy
We like to think DeSantis would be a good replacement for Trump in 2028. He just need to wait his turn. Maybe DeSantis is Establishment to his core and he wants to defeat Trump and weaken the America First momentum now. Maybe it’s not his handlers and people like Karl Rove convincing him to run in 2024. Maybe it’s DeSantis who wants to continue Establishment governance.
The one good thing to come out of the DeSwampis DeCeption is that he has destroyed any possibility of a political future. Had he not played his hand thia soon, we might have wound up with another RINO president who would quickly return us to the status quo. At least we all now know who and what he is.
To paraphrase Sundance – we have seen the strings on the RINO Ron marionette.
He has blown any chance in 2028 by his moves for 2024. We see his grifting for money, his managed character, no personality, no ability to connect to the people, a liar on things that don’t matter, hiding his visitors and travels, how unwilling he is to really take on Trump – won’t hold a rally in Florida to announce his candidacy.
There will be lots more choices for ’28 than Ronnie-Jeb!….who should have supported DT instead of going full UniParty.
Hilarious comments bubbling……..LOL!
Great answer to that post on Gab, “I’m sure going to miss Tina Turner.”
Ron left his good job in F L Aaaaa … workin for the GOP eh everyday ..
But people will miss Tina Turner.
They weren’t welcome. And he doesn’t have many in the base. Only donors. And what’s that tell us all?
Delusional DeSantis ?
OMG, that really is THE BEST!
The Trump team has a top of the line internet attack team, that is miles ahead.
The numbers/stats have to be faked. Probably by Musk himself personally.
87k views and only 993 likes is pure BS
Trump just posted this to his Instagram …
… and Truth Social
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110426610517273124
THE MAN ENJOYS GOOD BITING HUMOR !
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Pure Comedy!!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That is great!
Someone is very talented.
Loved the ending when President Trump chimed in!
Best thing I’ve seen in ages.
Elon and Ron; hoisted by your own petard. Enough said.
Couldn’t happen to two better con men!
Meatball sandwich is cooked. 🥪🍖
DeceptiCons visiting Italian eateries tonight looking for a Meatball Sub 🙂
Uhh, NASA, err a Space X, err Tesla, err I mean Twitter, we have a failure to launch!!! 😂🤣😂🤣😂
Mebbe…. Musk is also a stable genius who is all in on our stable genius….I like that thought as I trundle off to bed. Night all!
Hey ronnie, it would seem that even fate, or the lack of luck is against you running for president.
Better to be lucky than smart.
“DeSaster” is a new one, and it’s great.
God has a sense of humor…
Of course God has a sense of humor. Ever seen a platypus?
However, this is the “Buddy Christ” figurine being promoted by the Catholic Church in Kevin Smith’s hilarious religious satire “Dogma” (1999).
Their newest ‘kicked around’ version…
{ TRANS catholic -church-hosts-shocking-god-is-trans-exhibit }
Ha!
there r no accidents in life and yes, i believe in divine intervention…. I agree w Franklin Graham’s post on TGP that demons have been unleashed. It’s time to call out the evil for what it is https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/reverend-franklin-graham-issues-warning-america-storm-is/
on a very positive note, mayor Trent Staggs just announced that he’s running for Romney’s senate seat and will beat him. And no, he’s not a lawyer
Hindenburg
Waiting for PDJT to say “Thats why I stay with Truth Social” and then invite TC to interview him on TS.
An unplanned, premature, separation
Unscheduled rapid disassembly . . .
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!!!!
LOL
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110426277789022847
If they haven’t yet, somebody needs to get the NASA footage, of all of the rocket launches that never got off the ground, in the early days of NASA.
Perfect metaphore for RDS’s failure to launch campaign.
Elon has provided us a good many such events.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110426121391422436
It’s likely already been pointed out, but remember this is where Tucker headed off to….
Tucker belongs to the same family.
Tucker might want to re think his future…..
It really makes a mockery of your BIG IDEAS to change America and the world when you can’t even properly launch a presidential campaign.
The problem DeSantis has is he can’t draw a crowd to support his presidential campaign.
“Please Clap” has become “Please Tweet.”
David Sacks is a massive investor with twitter. He is also a very close friend of Elon Musk.
David Sacks was set to be the “moderator” of the twitter spaces event for desantis “launch”.
public open sources attribute David Sacks stating that the twitter servers were overwhelmed as an estimated 500,000 “people tuned in”.
a couple of points:
Here is my theory: it was a flop….not a technical issue, but a low number turnout. Doing twitter spaces event is very different than controlling a public event where the candidate can control the press…admit only whom he or she wants..and stop the cameras from actually rolling to record the actual numbers in a crowd. It bears remembering, and continues, the joe malarkey deploys this same deceptive practice…the man who is alleged to have won the white house, with fewer than 1500 people attending any of his “events”. Conversely, President Trump has never had to perform magic tricks. The cameras make a POINT to span across the large numbers that his events draw. I don’t think there has ever been an event that was not a sellout, or max capacity of near it.
The difference with Twitter, is the independently through very efficient software, you can actually determine the number of twitter space people who viewed it. It is far more difficult to “hide’ the crowd numbers.’
I am looking through various tech web stat sites to inspect for the numbers. What I am coming up with is..
wait for it.
seems one of the things elon did when he cut off certain API connections (this is how you can collect such data for statistical analysis and “other”), is that he cut off the API to twitter spaces. Twitter does not permit outside parties, even paid clients to access this.
very suspicious indeed.
God Bless America
regitiger an interesting theory. Do you know if the BBC Twitter broadcast with 3+ million users online for the event was before or after Musk cut servers?
precisely….and yes, I believe the BBC “spaces” was before and there were no apparent glitches. (but then that also raises the same question in a different way: what was BBC and twitter doing differently to “fortify” their numbers?)
at this point, I am skeptical of ANYTHING produced or stated by twitter, elon and sacks.
it’s a privately owned and controlled business….while I am very excited at one time to hear and to witness elon taking this company and doing quite a few good things with it (twitter files namely and restoring accounts to those censor-banned), there is plenty of reasons to not trust the howard hughes of our time.
I just don’t trust him…his lack of consistency is a big fail.
I have run live streaming servers. There are some fairly precise mathematics that tell you how much streaming traffic you can support.
Bear in mind, this spaces was audio only, requiring a much more forgiving bandwidth than video.
You can also throttle traffic so nothing crashes even tho you have more requests for streams than anticipated. You can also dynamically add resources, to levels known in advance because of software and OS constraints.
The fact that none of this seems to have been done says to me that there are some very incompetent tech engineers for spaces, prior planning was vastly insufficient, or something else, maybe what regitiger is implying, was happening. Or the deep state was playing with DeSaster to send a message.
Any which way, it’s not good for any of the participants, including the deep state.
which is more damaging/embarassing to a first announced contentious candidate for president on a novel, beta level app?
a. a failure of the tech?
b. not anticipating capacity and having no means to throttle?
c. simply such a low turnout, that it would cause so much newsworthy negatives, compounding existing negatives already?
the solution to every single one of these damaging/embarrassing failures:
kill the show and claim such a ginormous scale was achieved that no reasonable person would believe it possible to stream.
the BBC twitter spaces claimed over a billion viewers…and that apparently preceded this show?
so when you sit back you have to ask yourself…was this really a failure of twitter to support spaces? how do explain bbc?
moreover, as I have suggested, it’s likely the BBC spaces was a fraud too…
which brings me back to a key point: why would twitter remove api developer connections to twitter spaces? seems like if you are going to try and monetize it, you would want your advertisers to understand the numbers…or at least how to “run the numbers”. …
It all theory, yes. I probably try to hard to explain the weirdness of how my head works….I am not even sure at times, if there is something I can do about it. It just is. I write these things out, because thinking them alone…for hours at a time often…dwelling over them…you start to understand there is this very very fine line between inquiring mind and what motivates perhaps another person to perform a deep investigation…sometimes, it just works like that. In fact, I am convinced it works EXACTLY LIKE THAT> You start off with some hypothesis…what would fit…what would not fit…then look for what you might be missing…and iterate…until you can develop something that is at least logical and fits patterns of the subject/object discussing. (twitter has always used inflated EVERTHING to describe it’s platform….why would that magically change when elon took over? )
God Bless America
After Musk (Einstein 2.0) hired his ESG CIO for Twitter, Musk said he would remain on at Twitter as its CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER.
You can’t make this up!
Hilarious!
After DeSantis logged off, Musk and Sacks extended an open invitation to any other presidential candidate who wants to do a Twitter Spaces event. Whether or not they get any takers could signal what the future holds for Twitter as a “public square.”
maybe we should send him pence….I’m sure he’ll get at least 50 people to sign up..
for insomnia therapy.
RFKjr will do it.
Twitter space numbers are much like Democrat votes, each person (living, dead, bot, whatever) was counted many many many times.
If I was on the call, got dropped, got back in, got dropped again, then got back in . . . . . . . . How many attendees (voters) am I?
That’s a good question for which we have no definition from Musk.
depends on the “algorithm”….classically, and per sop, the user who runs the app is a single user. And in general, ethically (in the strict sense of statistical ethics), we would not expect twitter to count the same user attending the same spaces event as more than one user for each time they connect to it…just one each, not matter how many connects/disconnects that occur. The app has a unique identifier (similar but different that a mac address or an ip address of a browser cookie or a browser “fingerprint”….So what I am saying is that is possible and realistic to expect that ethical statistics can be used.
but this is twitter. Twitter went into a court room in delaware and successfully prevented elon from renegotiating purchase terms on the basis of showing bots and other core twitter algorithm codes that produce user numbers…(is he a real boy tests?)
that was argued in court for the purchase argument.
this should not be confused or conflated to mean that elon was to discontinue the practice of using dubious statistically unethical bots and other algorithms under his ownership.
these are two entirely different matters.
I find it as a practical matter unlikely that elon went full ethical upon ownership. A company that could not produce a profit even with inflated numbers…what does that company look like after acquisition when it reports true lower numbers?
anyway, that the backdrop that I am aware of and the assumptions I have formed.
your mileage may vary
God Bless America
Regitiger, I always value and appreciate your insightful posts here on CTH. Question: what’s going on with Elon Musk’s project to transport people through underground pipes in American cities like Los Angeles? I haven’t heard much lately about that Musk project? Always was skeptical as it seems like a boondoggle to me but then again automobiles were mocked at first? What’s the latest?
I know the Boring Company still exists, though I think he’s selling it.
I haven’t heard anything about his Hyper-Loop, using partial vacuum tunnels, for years.
it’s a long endless hole in the ground that you dig so you can throw public money into.
the idea has merits..but the regulations, the practicality, the costs and the real world logistics it pretends to solve where never realistic. The boring machine itself is impressive, but there are plenty of competitor engineering gear that accomplishes the same thing for much cheaper and proven reliable. (london underground tunneling comes to mind and the chunnel).
he is expected to sell the company off. even the most backward corrupt cities aren’t considering the idea to launder public money. And not just the idea of it isn’t attractive…the reality is that nearly all corrupt dem cities that have the funds to make something like this happen, LOATHE ELON MUSK. he is kryptonite to the left radicals.
Twitter is govt tech and rules by the tyrants. We use it as a public square but beware
I reached the same conclusions…while I was hopeful for a different outcome with elon…it has not converted in the shape I was hoping it could achieve…it’s transformed now as elon’s personal play toy to influence elections. and at the same time, pissing off everyone…strange dude this elon.
Clear case of electile dysfunction.
That was funny, I don’t care who you are.
And the only cure for that is the red pill, not the little blue one!
Looks like Disney put Goofy in control….
musky will be firing more techies 🤣🤣🤣
Trump likes to box and I’m sure he’s gonna have tons of fun humiliating DeSantis, but ignoring him for the flea he really is might be the smartest move. Team Meatball will be goading Trump everyday into pettiness. Ignore them.
Besides, Trump is gonna have his hands full when the DOJ drops the hammer on him. It’s not gonna be some nit-picky stuff. They are gonna concoct a serious set of charges against him. They wouldn’t have raided the compound if they didn’t already have a plan.
I’ll trust Trump. He’s kinda smart.
The charges will sound serious, but they will be soundly exposed as ephemeral once trial starts.
There is no law under which Trump can be charged.
Also, the comparison to how Biden’s corruption is being handled will be in stark relief.
My take is they will try to bloody him up really good to make him toxic in the eyes of voters, then they think they have a path to steal the election again.
Quick!! Calling Carl Rove. He’ll know what to do.
Every so often, God reminds us that He has a GLORIOUS sense of humor! This was another “Mike Pence and the Fly” moment!
I think I will just have another Yuengling beer and forget about it.
Ron will soon be taking another flight to be upbraided by his investors. His billionaire donors are less than pleased with his performance.
They could actually be pleased. Everybody is talking about Ron DeSantis. Of course, the comments are very negative and Ronny Meatball has no sense of humor.
Maybe DeSantis should try giving free Bud Lite out at his events.
😆
I reiterate, because of another treepers comment, I believe I have stumbled onto the truth, and it answers ALL of the qurstions about RDS, and his campaign.
Remember, its NOT about VOTES, its about BALLOTS.
RDS is NOT ‘auditioning’ to get our votes, he is ‘auditioning’ to get the BALLOTS of those who installed Joe.
He is showing them he can be an even bigger f-up than Joe!
Now, it all makes sense!
desantis would have to work really really hard to put together that much malarkey….but I have no doubt, he aims to set the bar as low as possible so he can stumble under it.
there is a certain pleasure point I get seeing all this time, energy and massive amounts of money getting completely wasted ….there is nothing in this world more pleasing to me to see corrupt disengenous morons spends oceans of money pursuing stupid projects. Where my anger gets tuned to white hot volume 11 is when it’s public money…spent.
and that is really my big time concern about desantis. when you have so much dark private money just dumping it everywhere to install the meathead, you know there are invoices being prepared for desantis to process…using tax payers dollars.
most people never consider this. They stop at the point of the argument about billionaires getting involved in financing and king making…that’s just the lease …they want the prize in the end. and that always involves a president or a representative that has his hand on massive amounts of spending for said billionaire’s real goals. Which almost never produce a benefit to tax payers.
this is the kind of political economy that I fear the most. That the basis of power is removed from the people and is replaced by special interest…where robbing the bank is the entire purpose.
This is a good one. Share it everywhere.
It contains Ron! being confronted by Charlie Crist. Repeats Meatball saying that he needs to trick Trump voters. Shows clips of DeSaster praising Trump at rallies. Then it goes to Ron and vaccines. Great video.
Loved it…
Excellent
😱😱😱😱
I like the old movie format…real celluloid..the combustible stuff…if you aren’t careful, and keep the projector running and the fan moving cool aire, there is a good chance that at any moment, the projector screen would melt into blobs, the sound would be replaced by the ratcheting motion of the film reels spinning…and that puff of smoke and the smell that follows. and groans from the audience.
God Bless America
This was written a month ago, but still true today…
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Why Ron DeSantis Should Not Run For President
https://paulingrassia.substack.com/p/why-ron-desantis-should-not-run-for?utm_source=twitter&sd=pf
Career suicide going against Trump. Elon your next. Get in line see we can play this game to only better.
FWIW: The original Musk/DeSantis Twitter Spaces that they say “melted the servers” showed 482K people having “tuned in.” At one point in the audio you can hear someone say (what sounds like) “there are 382,000 people, north.”
Here are some “highlights”:
“Spotted at the DeSantis launch event outside the Four Seasons this afternoon!”…
So bizarre !
Is it a Full Moon ?
We know what they are
trying to do.
I for one have done the
research.
Was channel surfing a few minutes ago and saw Laura Ingraham interviewing Thomas Massie, R, Kentucky, DeSantis supporter who was trying to sell LI on the fact that DeSantis “did great” tonight.
LI pointed out that she was surprised the Governor didn’t talk about the economy. She made a very good point, that candidates for President such as Reagan and Clinton defeated their opponents not by harping on social issues but on pounding the matters that are crushing people’s finances.
Massie didn’t have a good answer for that so he quickly turned to the lockdown and said, “Well, when he talks about the lockdowns he really IS talking about the economy. After all, Trump was for the CARE ACT when a bunch of us were telling him not to be and Ron didn’t shut things down.” blah, blah blah.
LI was sneering at his weak response with lips she still can’t close since her last round of Botox, and she gave away her subservience to the Murdochs when she proffered in her sarcastic manner, “Is that how we’re going to beat Trump–by talking about the lockdowns?” Then, her signature snort. I wondered if she even realized she had used “we.”
I’m sure she badly wants to keep her Fox gig.
🤣🤣🤣
MAGA is like a stampede politically. We need to capitalize by collecting ballots now! Let’s give DC the 🖕.
Ok someone here said DeSantis said he would t pardon Jan 6 voters I need proof
Do you really need proof?
Yes, I reposted it on another site and they are demanding proof he said that
I should have known better but if you got it post it