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  • christian [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I think I missed what happened/went wrong with the twitter spaces launch, can anyone fill me in? I did see the Trump campaign ad that dropped around the same time (the one with Cheney and Hitler and Satan).

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      DeSantis tried to declare he was running for President on Twitter Spaces and got ratio’d

      • femicrat [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        The one good thing he's doing is freezing out the corporate media and going over their heads directly to the people with social media. That's what the announcement was doing. But Elon's Twitter couldn't take the load and broke down. Shouldn't have taken the wine machine out of the yoga room, Elon, now you aren't competitive for any competent SV talent.

    • CarmineCatboy [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      elon stopped paying the sub-company that makes sure twitter spaces work, so their 'bandwith' is throttled so to speak. the entire thing barely worked, and ron's game was too terminally online for a campaign announcement.

    • mittens [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      spaces was unable to support 200,000 simultaneous listeners and crapped itself. later musk claimed the volume was unprecedented, even though the bbc had hosted a stream with millions of viewers on twitter like literally a week before.

    • sempersigh [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Frequent technical issues during the stream and low viewership. For example the trump cnn thing got three or four times as many viewers or something