{"id":175942,"date":"2023-05-25T00:44:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T00:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=175942"},"modified":"2023-05-25T00:44:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T00:44:18","slug":"desantis-mocked-for-shambolic-twitter-room-presidential-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/desantis-mocked-for-shambolic-twitter-room-presidential-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis mocked for shambolic Twitter room presidential announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#8216;Biggest fail in campaign launches in history&#8217;: Ron DeSantis is mocked for shambolic Twitter room presidential announcement with Elon Musk that crashes five times and leaves users bamboozled<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ron DeSantis on Wednesday night was due to launch his presidential campaign live on Twitter, during a 6pm ET discussion with Elon Musk<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The launch was immediately hit with technical problems: it began late, and then crashed swiftly\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Frantic tech advisers could be heard in the background, as the moderator David Sacks declared that so many people were listening it melted the internet\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The launch was due to take place on Wednesday at 6pm Eastern Time.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Twitter was unable to cope with the traffic, and the servers repeatedly crashed.<\/p>\n<p>The event was initially delayed by several minutes, and when it began the audio frequently cut out.<\/p>\n<p>Moderator David Sacks said so many people were trying to listen that it was &#8216;melting the internet&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>By 6:30pm, the audio was down and DeSantis was yet to utter a word. They began again around 10 minutes later, with Sacks congratulating DeSantis for &#8216;breaking the internet&#8217; and Musk saying it was refreshing not to have &#8216;canned speeches and teleprompters &#8211; it&#8217;s real.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The internet erupted in mockery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Who here thinks #DeSantis would have been better off launching on Disney streaming? #Fail,&#8217; tweeted one, referencing DeSantis&#8217;s bruising battle with the entertainment company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Biggest fail in campaign launches in history,&#8217; tweeted another. &#8216;Nice one DeSantis. Brought to you by Elon L Musk.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/24\/23\/71299935-12121789-On_Monday_night_he_showed_off_his_potential_White_House_credenti-a-1_1684967131326.jpg\" height=\"429\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ron DeSantis intended to launch his presidential campaign on Twitter on Wednesday evening, but the technology crashed<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/24\/23\/71378201-12121789-image-a-16_1684968427527.jpg\" height=\"640\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/25\/00\/71379785-12121789-image-a-41_1684971460741.jpg\" height=\"625\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/25\/01\/71381427-12121789-image-a-52_1684974492753.jpg\" height=\"640\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/24\/23\/71378135-12121789-image-a-9_1684968316414.jpg\" height=\"119\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/24\/23\/71378131-12121789-image-a-10_1684968326873.jpg\" height=\"103\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/24\/23\/71378129-12121789-image-a-11_1684968331249.jpg\" height=\"95\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/24\/23\/71378127-12121789-image-a-12_1684968336985.jpg\" height=\"144\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/24\/23\/71378125-12121789-image-a-13_1684968342331.jpg\" height=\"205\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/24\/23\/71378123-12121789-image-a-14_1684968346820.jpg\" height=\"176\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/24\/23\/71378121-12121789-image-a-15_1684968353229.jpg\" height=\"118\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>One person tweeted a meme of an engineer staring at a server, captioned: &#8216;Elon right now.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Another shared a picture of a rocket exploding &#8211; playing with the title of the event: &#8216;Presidential Launch&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He captioned the picture: &#8216;Ron DeSantis learning what happens when you launch things with Elon Musk&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Others commented on how astonishing it was that the demand was not predicted, and that additional server bandwidth was not secured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It is having issues,&#8217; said one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;DeSantis 2024: Technical issues,&#8217; joked another.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another speculated: &#8216;Welp maybe Elon was planning to ruin the Desantis rollout&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/25\/00\/71379781-12121789-image-a-42_1684971788996.jpg\" height=\"447\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/25\/00\/71379783-12121789-image-a-43_1684971795230.jpg\" height=\"730\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Musk and Sacks said that the problem was server bandwidth, and that they resolved it by hosting the event from Sacks&#8217; account rather than Musk&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Sacks, a billionaire venture capitalist and DeSantis supporter, has 665,000 followers: Musk has 140 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My account was breaking the system,&#8217; Musk said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis laughed off the chaos, as Musk said it was proof that their encounter was live and real.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida governor then went on Fox News and joked about the fiasco.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It did break the Twitter space,&#8217; he told host Trey Gowdy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis&#8217;s team said $1 million was raised in one hour, thanks to the Twitter spectacle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the ridicule was relentless, ensuring that DeSantis&#8217;s much-heralded launch will be remembered for all the wrong reasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/25\/01\/71381103-12121789-image-a-47_1684973497683.jpg\" height=\"128\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/25\/01\/71381105-12121789-image-a-46_1684973493710.jpg\" height=\"126\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/25\/01\/71381109-12121789-image-a-44_1684973447034.jpg\" height=\"118\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/25\/01\/71381107-12121789-image-a-45_1684973489325.jpg\" height=\"117\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/25\/01\/71381101-12121789-image-a-48_1684973501536.jpg\" height=\"160\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/25\/01\/71381099-12121789-image-a-49_1684973506766.jpg\" height=\"186\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/25\/01\/71381097-12121789-image-a-50_1684973510906.jpg\" height=\"142\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/25\/01\/71381093-12121789-image-a-51_1684973514310.jpg\" height=\"116\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>One asked whether Musk was operating on an AOL dial-up connection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tara Golshan, a senior editor at Vanity Fair&#8217;s Hive, said: &#8216;Shall we all just go with the video he put out and call it a day?&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One said it was &#8216;a gift to mainstream media&#8217;, while Ben Collins, senior reporter at NBC, said the idea that it was the biggest online gathering ever was &#8216;ludicrous&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Stelter, a media analyst formerly of CNN, agreed, saying: &#8216;Musk and Sacks are bragging about having half a million listeners \u2013 &#8220;probably the 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