'Biggest fail in campaign launches in history': DeSantis mocked for shambolic Twitter launch
By: Harriet Alexander (Mail Online)
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Ron DeSantis has been ridiculed online for his attempt to launch his presidential campaign on Twitter, with tech failures preventing the discussion with Elon Musk.
The launch was due to take place on Wednesday at 6pm Eastern Time.
Yet Twitter was unable to cope with the traffic, and the servers repeatedly crashed.
The event was initially delayed by several minutes, and when it began the audio frequently cut out.
Moderator David Sacks said so many people were trying to listen that it was 'melting the internet'.
By 6:30pm, the audio was down and DeSantis was yet to utter a word. They began again around 10 minutes later.
The internet erupted in mockery.
'Who here thinks #DeSantis would have been better off launching on Disney streaming? #Fail,' tweeted one, referencing DeSantis's bruising battle with the entertainment company.
'Biggest fail in campaign launches in history,' tweeted another. 'Nice one DeSantis. Brought to you by Elon L Musk.'
Ron DeSantis intended to launch his presidential campaign on Twitter on Wednesday evening, but the technology crashed
One person tweeted a meme of an engineer staring at a server, captioned: 'Elon right now.'
Others commented on how astonishing it was that the demand was not predicted, and that additional server bandwidth was not secured.
'It is having issues,' said one.
'DeSantis 2024: Technical issues,' joked another.
Another speculated: 'Welp maybe Elon was planning to ruin the Desantis rollout'.
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If the gop nominates Trump, Biden will win...
Biden would beat DeSantis, but not so badly!
I have to wonder if this is related to Musk's dramatic reduction in Twitter staff.
Who would have thought this would have been a good idea anyway.
Funny.
Mickey would have pre-empted him.
I didn't see but I've heard it was a ''failure to launch''...Strange way to announce that your running for president. Usually that draws a fairly good representation of the media for a lot of free coverage, the Twitter things seem to be strange.
Lol, when I first saw the headline that this was gonna happen all I said was "that's gay."
Turned into a shit show lol.