{"id":10161,"date":"2023-05-25T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T08:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/25\/outages-garbled-audio-desantiss-2024-launch-marred-by-twitter-tech-meltdown\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T08:37:15","slug":"outages-garbled-audio-desantiss-2024-launch-marred-by-twitter-tech-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/25\/outages-garbled-audio-desantiss-2024-launch-marred-by-twitter-tech-meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Outages, garbled audio: DeSantis\u2019s 2024 launch marred by Twitter tech meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling platform experienced its greatest stress test yet on Wednesday, with glitches piling as more people joined the stream<\/p>\n<p>Ron DeSantis\u2019s presidential campaign launch on Twitter Spaces was hyped by Elon Musk as \u201cgroundbreaking\u201d, and extensively advertised as a new frontier for \u201cfree speech\u201d in politics. Instead, the results were a disaster.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which marked the first time a major candidate had announced their run for president on social media, marked Twitter\u2019s latest attempt to draw more users and create profit as financial challenges mount. Since taking over the social network, laying off upwards of 80% of staff, Musk\u2019s company has experienced a rise in technical glitches and errors.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/may\/24\/ron-desantis-2024-twitter-launch-tech-outage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c51d52af723f23c78f3d1d4771fa27f6586fb4ef\/0_157_5360_3219\/master\/5360.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5bfca428afa7341b7beb6e061a1638de\" title=\"Outages, garbled audio: DeSantis\u2019s 2024 launch marred by Twitter tech meltdown\" \/>Struggling platform experienced its greatest stress test yet on Wednesday, with glitches piling as more people joined the stream<br \/>\nRon DeSantis\u2019s presidential campaign launch on Twitter Spaces was hyped by Elon Musk as \u201cgroundbreaking\u201d, and extensively advertised as a new frontier for \u201cfree speech\u201d in politics. Instead, the results were a disaster.<br \/>\nThe event, which marked the first time a major candidate had announced their run for president on social media, marked Twitter\u2019s latest attempt to draw more users and create profit as financial challenges mount. Since taking over the social network, laying off upwards of 80% of staff, Musk\u2019s company has experienced a rise in technical glitches and errors. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling platform experienced its greatest stress test yet on Wednesday, with glitches piling as more people joined the stream Ron DeSantis\u2019s presidential campaign launch on Twitter Spaces was hyped by Elon Musk as \u201cgroundbreaking\u201d, and extensively advertised as a new frontier for \u201cfree speech\u201d in politics. Instead, the results were a disaster. The event, which &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/25\/outages-garbled-audio-desantiss-2024-launch-marred-by-twitter-tech-meltdown\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Outages, garbled audio: DeSantis\u2019s 2024 launch marred by Twitter tech meltdown<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}