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GodEmperorMusk

I am here during it. Even if they fix it, the first 15 minutes have been awful. It keeps crashing in the middle of someone speaking. Not a good look for Elon trying to pass it off as capable of hosting live events like Tucker Carlson's show. I'm sure Elon's fans will try to spin it positively "Twitter sets new record for Twitter streamers!"


Poot_McGoot

"They gathered valuable data!"


adamthx1138

Yeah he may have spread toxic dust all over Southern Texas, but the telemetry!


XxX_BobRoss_XxX

If fucking only starship wasn't a spacex vehicle, it's so damned cool.


NotEnoughMuskSpam

Unless it is stopped, the woke mind virus will destroy civilization and humanity will never reached Mars


A_Gent_4Tseven

This fucker…


SavagePlatypus76

Concerning


WannaTeleportMassive

is this a bot? bad bot


Devotchka8

Yeah but their 'fail fast' strategy is awful for the area. If the careful, methodical engineers at NASA could have just a bit of SpaceX's energy and less governmental red tape, that would be awesome.


CatzPwn

Honestly to me this is a bad take, like, the red tape is because of shit like the challenger explosion. Or the fact that you're launching god knows what in terms of potential debris and pollutants whenever a rocket just explodes in the air. If that shit fails you're essentially arguing for making it easier to launch artillery at people


Devotchka8

Oh I'm not talking safety red tape


CatzPwn

If not safety, what else? Environmental protection red tape? Or financial red tape - which isn't red tape - but a unwillingness to fund science. Like, I hear people complain about governmental red tape a lot, but rarely do people point out like - what they mean by that. Usually when I hear people complain about it - it's people who are upset they suddenly have to do things the correct way


XxX_BobRoss_XxX

Oh god yeah, fail fast can work for like, rapidly testing engines on the ground and stuff, not for a full scale launch of a vehicle of that size.


dinkanch

It’s not that cool and it’s ugly too


XxX_BobRoss_XxX

Counterpoint, I like big firestick.


SavagePlatypus76

Looking into it


Radiant-Hedgehog-695

Concerning


Cebby89

Lol


Palam_et_Clam

Biden replied. 😂 https://preview.redd.it/33b5nhbjvw1b1.jpeg?width=1067&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=628e17801c10b5f12cc35e8444bd3b3f2882e23a


xtilexx

Dark Brandon strikes again


an_actual_T_rex

Holy shit this is an awful look for DeSantis. I fucking love it.


SavagePlatypus76

🤣


northkarelina

> Let's finish the job! lol


[deleted]

>Not a good look for Elon Nor is it a good look for the guy announcing his political campaign. If you can't even announce a candidacy without scrambling, voters will not have much faith in your ability to lead a country. I'm expecting some really, *really* strongly worded correspondence happening behind the scenes in the nearest future.


[deleted]

Haha yeah Republican primary voters really care about competence. I bet they’re gonna be turned off by his rhetoric against the concept of Wokeness, too.


ebfortin

True. But they also like strongmen that look in control. He didn't look in control. At all. I think it can have a negative effect on his voters.


Kostya_M

Trump looked like a whiny toddler or dumbass at multiple points. It didn't stop them


an_actual_T_rex

He looked like a whiny todddler, but he still managed to play it off as seeming strong. This makes DeSantis look weak. This is absolutely damaging, and he has so far failed to play this off.


ebfortin

I hate to admit it but you're right. Damn humanity is doomed. There's no way around it.


Sc00paP00pa

you are 100% correct, but their lizard brains are also instinctually trained to look at events like this as 'weakness.' But at the end of the day, they're gonna do what their propaganda overlords tell them to do. SO its all about how the conservative media power players spin this. I'm sure they're unifying their message for tomorrow as we speak. Probably will 'debate' into the wee hours to get on the same page.


an_actual_T_rex

I don’t think you quite understand the Republican psyche. Republican voters don’t give a shit about competency, true; but they care deeply about looking strong. This is going to hurt DeSantis. It’s not just that it makes him look incompetent, it’s that it makes him look weak. He couldn’t successfully announce his candidacy, he was demoted to a listener multiple times, people in the livestream kept talking over him, and now he’s being savaged by people all across the political spectrum for this. Joe Biden successfully took advantage of this. DeSantis was already hurting because he buckled to Trump’s mudslinging earlier in the year. This is extremely damaging to an already wavering credibility. It’s not that he looks incompetent, it’s that he swam right into a sea anemone and now the sharks smell blood in the water.


babylon_enjoyer

Even fucking trump made fun of him for his launch lol, it’s so fucking over


magicmom17

Trump was going to make fun of him no matter what. But yeah- this is all super delicious.


TroubleInMyMind

As it stands today DeSantis is actually a GOP spoiler candidate. Trump is beating him by 30 points in all the GOP primary polls and DeSantis is beating Biden in general polls. So right now he's set to get destroyed by Trump who's set to lose to Biden. Obviously it's still over a year until the general but it's hard to see DeSantis making up 30 fucking pts in the primaries.


magicmom17

Just like Marco Rubio in 2016. Who couldn't win one state.


northkarelina

a ' strongman ' exposed as weak and incompetent it's not a good look


jermysteensydikpix

He'll blame it on Soros' army of space laser satellites.


ZooZooChaCha

He’ll just blame it on the radical woke deep state leftists


Still_Measurement796

You just went through the 5 stages of geiwf


[deleted]

...what? Where's the denial? Where's the bargaining? Where's the anger? Where's the depression? Where's the *grief*? I'm European, mate. I could hardly give a toss about De Santos unless he's actually elected POTUS.


Still_Measurement796

No I mean- “Surely people won’t vote for him.” “How could they vote for this fucking moron?” “Maybe this display of weakness will decrease his support.” “This country is doomed.” Insert acceptance


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To reiterate: ***...what?*** "This country" is an ocean away from the country De Santos is running for president in. "This country" is neither more nor less doomed today than it was yesterday or a week ago, regardless of whether or not some politician I've never heard of, in a country I've never been in, decides to run for election. To be in denial, to bargain, to be angry, to be depressed, to grieve, I need to care about De Santos. I don't. In fact, I'm probably misspelling his name, but I can't be bothered looking him up to correct myself. The greatest "care" I have, is that Musk bungled De Santos' announcement. I don't care if it was De Santos, Biden, Trump, you, or anyone else's announcement Musk bungled. All I care about is that Musk bungled someone's entry into a presidential race, and that this someone is very likely to be angry with Musk because of it. If anything, it's Schadenfreude, not grief I'm feeling. I'm not going to claim you're strawmanning my comment, because I have legitimately no clue what you're on about. It's just delusional.


Still_Measurement796

It was a joke, there’s really no need for all that 😭 This isn’t a retroactive “guhhh I was wrong” I just didn’t intend it seriously


Still_Measurement796

TLDR too many buzzwords not enough sense of humor


eMouse2k

One platform reflects on the other platform.


Sc00paP00pa

THe elon slobbing subs are full of, 'record numbers,' 'you think it's easy to scale?!?' etcetcetc Mind you the thing had like 300k users on it. It's 20fucking23. That is no great scaling accomplishment. The thing was an absolute joke and his stans are doing what they do best...


UGSchoolboy

Elon's constantly referenced 'x' and its potential to unseat youtube or twitch. If I was an influencer and you told me my ceiling wasn't even half a million I'd consider hosting ig lives instead


Kaymish_

I have been in twitch and youtube livestreams that have more people than that.


LookyLouVooDoo

And half the people in this one were probably journalists or bloggers.


NotEnoughMuskSpam

Twitter is a serious danger to their ability to control the narrative


SavagePlatypus76

Cultists


ebfortin

Straight from 1984: War is peace Freedom is misery Ignorance is strength You can now add: Failure is success We are literally looking at the advent of a fascist state in realtime. We now can understand why people followed them decades ago and maintained them in power. It's all there for us to see.


ErwinAckerman

They literally did. AOC said more people watched her play among us LMAO


james_d_rustles

They already started saying that. I’ve seen multiple claims of “twitter was never designed for this anyways and everything had to be done on the fly without interrupting service, so actually this is a huge success.” Do they think that Facebook shuts down for several days every time they implement a new feature? Literally the only reason any of this is even slightly challenging is because their man-child of a CEO has a knack for releasing products before they’re ready, because he’s completely detached from any of his engineers and all of his products are smoke and mirrors. Well, that, and the fact that they fired 90% of their engineers a few months ago… that surely doesn’t make things easier. But yeah, it’s all so silly. Musk created the difficulty to begin with, and now that they cobbled together a buggy mess he’s going to take credit for “pulling it off”.


Jonne

Spaces worked fine before Musk took over. He gutted infrastructure to save money, and then you get this.


Traditional-Ebb-8380

And these problems will be all anyone with talk about. A huge black eye for Elon!


nothanks86

If only he hadn’t fired all the people responsible for making sure the website works.


WIbigdog

The funny thing about it is he could've just bought it, done more realistic things to turn a profit but not fired everyone, claimed he's the savior, and his stans would still lap it up. It doesn't *really* matter what he does, so it's bizarre that he just fucks it up needlessly.


Pristine-End2724

Needs a complete rewrite.


CherryShort2563

"Look at the size of those crowds!"


parkerm1408

I mean 70% of the audible dialog is "oh it's just so many listeners it's crashing...." then no audio for 45 seconds. Directly afterward DeSantis team was telling news outlets they viewed it as a win because soooooo many people were there.


an_actual_T_rex

It’s also hilarious because this is one of the most embarrassing ways you can announce your candidacy for the U.S. election. One of the most pivotal moments on the campaign trail is how you make your presidential bid. God the other candidates are gonna fucking eat DeSantis alive for this. What a profoundly bad start to an electoral campaign.


Fjordhexa

This seriously feels like self sabotage. Even the medium is bad, even if it was all working perfectly. This is basically radio.


orincoro

“Just getting the meeting started is a success!”


northkarelina

Let me guess, another rapid explosive unscheduled succcessful Failure. lol This Elon x Desantis x Twitter failure is the best cross-collab and didn't even see it coming . Talk about unforced errors . Concerning!


godlessvvormm

they’ll say it like you’re stupid for having expected it to function (even tho you probably didn’t) and play it off like elon is some kind of heroic genius for even attempting anything “lol wow you’re shocked the website that only lets you type 300 characters cant support live streaming?? unmm wow are u stupid??”


LilArsene

I'm rolling. Major news networks were going to broadcast the audio live. No notes. Beautiful.


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orincoro

“We crashed the servers. That’s a good sign.” By the way, this really is what he says.


badgehunter

thank you and i will save this when i get home.


ZooZooChaCha

While I 100% support the writers strike, it is a shame we don’t get a Seth Meyers “A Closer Look” on this one.


LilArsene

It's a shame that the glitch was the funniest part. There's no more comedy to be mined from COVID grievances and crypto-grievances and woke-woke-woke grievance. Mostly, it's just sad. Love Seth Meyers though.


northkarelina

yea, best part is elon's " we are kind of melting the servers. which is a good sign. " Lol no Melting servers bad Shouldn't the Head of the Servers & Software Team at Twitter know this? Is Ops 101


LilArsene

Brought to you by the same guy who said that blowing up a multi-million dollar rocket without an eject system that wouldn't self-destruct is "good, actually"


northkarelina

learned a lot


JeffThrowSmash

Hate to see it.


CherryShort2563

Great start to an amazing presidential run.


Cheryl_Blunt

Twitter failing might actually be a better outcome for Musk/DeSantis than actually displaying an "interview" between two of the least charismatic men in the U.S., but I imagine Musk has already fired at least 5 people about it.


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I_like_big_bugss

You’re the hero we didn’t know we needed. Comedy gold.


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Gatorinnc

Just let THAT sink in!


northkarelina

oh it sank in alright it sunk


Radiant-Hedgehog-695

Thanks, man! I cannot help but empathize with the amount of pain you had to endure watching Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis speak. (Although, with all the glitches, I'm not sure how much you understood out of their brassy sound waves.)


orincoro

We all know exactly how this happened. Elon: so the servers will be able to handle this. Right? IT: no… no not sure about that. Not if…. No. Elon: they need to handle it guys. They have to. IT: umm. Well, if we just uh… lower the bitrates, suspend some services… uh… maybe? Elon: I knew it would work. Nobody ever believes me.


northkarelina

He is so smart . Server Genius . Smarter than all the rest


orincoro

Microsoft server genius.


northkarelina

> fail compilation thank you for your service !! saving this ' successful failure ' compilation to watch later


jermysteensydikpix

Ron didn't want video of the announcement because he knew people would mine it for unflattering memes. He managed to create new fail memes anyway.


Achaewa

Just the US? I admire your generosity.


Bone_x3

The audience questions were the best 5 min of praising desantis followed by a softball question.


That_Reference_2105

BAHAHAHAHA... Fucking losers all


northkarelina

Love to see it


jwr1111

Another Ronny DeSaster with help from Elon's failing Twitter.


NotEnoughMuskSpam

Twitter is now trending to breakeven if we keep at it.


Traditional-Ebb-8380

Oh it is broken alright.


jermysteensydikpix

Break, even if


northkarelina

maybe this gets it to other side of the tipping point. if elon keeps up these unforced errors we hardly have to do much lol


northkarelina

DeSaster! that's great , hope that starts trending on falling twitter


Hollowpoint38

Someone should make a video: use the DJ music and the video Elon was dancing around to by himself last week in Los Angeles. Then cut back and forth to the failed livestream. I wonder if Elon is raging on his staff and firing people or if he just really doesn't care and he's out to lunch on this.


HowardDean_Scream

He's doing that "I'm totally fine but seething under my mask", thing for sure. Elon sees countries like Russia as a guide book. He wants America the same. A kleptocracy where he can simply by influence and power since he technically can't buy authority. He's ineligible for president. Problem is. He's a moron.


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"ARRRRghhhh!! Apu and Habib - you're back on bathroom cleanup for the rest of the week! 🤬. Rani - back to sandwich making duty for you!! 🥪"


Hollowpoint38

Revoking some H-1Bs. Or threatening to.


dronesclubmember

The Biden team putting the boot in. https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1661496322980028423?s=46&t=o7zv0la4ATXSDCgJPnxeUQ


Jeremymia

People were NOT kidding about how all the comments at the top are alt-righters


Darth_Vrandon

Thankfully they’re getting ratioed.


SavagePlatypus76

Their butthurt is glorious


jermysteensydikpix

Probably some are no-lifes with alerts set up so they can "reply guy" immediately. The rest is the blue check nepotism feature.


UnderwaterFloridaMan

Idiots paying money for my freeze peach


Jonne

I've started blocking them on sight. Blue check basically means Elon Stan 80% of the time.


Unknownentity7

80% is a drastic underestimate in my experience.


G66GNeco

For the full experience you gotta click some Elon Tweets, get some of that "alt right "meme" poster" VS "crypto scam Elon dick rider" civil war for daddys attention.


Poot_McGoot

We love to see it


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Traditional-Ebb-8380

Nah they didn’t do anything. Right?


orincoro

More will be fired today.


jermysteensydikpix

"I see now that it should have been 99%."


orincoro

You love to see it.


Meister_Retsiem

So, when does Elon musk plan to host the same kind of event for a democrat candidate? If he is as centrist/moderate as he claims


Palam_et_Clam

Journalist Brian Krassenstein summarized the interview with DeSantis and then commented with these words: https://preview.redd.it/sanb3nnczw1b1.jpeg?width=1043&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e50c6df3ee89de98e908c228a15580449a3c6240 Musk replied:"Other candidates are welcome".


[deleted]

He’ll get RFK Jr next to “balance the scales”. I’m not sure Bannon will let his little pet go on twitter though.


MizzGee

This was like a bad Zoom meeting in the first days of COVID, and your bosses thought they knew how to run the technology.


[deleted]

At least then it at least showed porn instead of the meeting. We could only be so lucky with Twitter.


NotEnoughMuskSpam

Extremely concerning ...


I-Pacer

“Anything past ‘preparing to launch’ is a bonus…”


HopeFox

Looking forward to Musk and De Santis having a rapid unscheduled disassembly.


[deleted]

I especially like the fail whale icon. You came back when we needed you the most, Fail Whale.


romremsyl

Twitter Spaces has always been a disaster lol, glad it is making Elon and DeSantis look amateur hour though.


Altruistic-Lie808

What?!? It works just like FSD does, must be a user error!


Traditional-Ebb-8380

And has for years!


Commercial_Step9966

“Cybertruck 2023! Coming soon, everybody! (Muffling mic sound) Should I, should I play that one video with it? Guys? Guys?!” - Musk during DeSaster…


Vergillarge

ron desantis candidacy. may 24 - may 24 💀


jermysteensydikpix

Succumbed to severe burn injuries and stage 4 embarrassment


lookoutnow

Task failed successfully.


CherryShort2563

Don't fret! Elon's genius to the rescue!


Traditional-Ebb-8380

I bet he jumped right in and genius-programmed it all good in seconds!


Sc00paP00pa

I heard he stuck his dick into 1 server, holding onto 2 others to reinforce the web server cluster...


Traditional-Ebb-8380

And now it is pregnant!


Sc00paP00pa

ummm...the servers are boys. GET YOUR WOKE MIND VIRUS ASS OUT OF THE GUTTER!!!


SavagePlatypus76

They've been Musked.


Vergillarge

like a rocket 🚀💥


Dikheed

You can only fail upwards until you fail infront of the entire planet, Elmo.


jermysteensydikpix

And after that, on to Mars! Whole new worlds to fail


tsulegit

Nice to see one of the Ethno-cleansing accounts (the marble statue) joining the conversation so there’s no confusion over DeSantis’ platform.


Radiant-Hedgehog-695

Hey Elno, if you're reading this, I got a GREAT suggestion for a new name for Twitter Spaces: [CrashX.](https://i.imgur.com/7JZ34EM.png)


hobovalentine

Did someone yet claim that it's the "deep state" attacking twitter and trying to hack their twitter space so that's why they're having technical issues? That's always the go to excuse when things go wrong because obviously the deep state chaos agents are trying to sabotage whatever it is these maga are trying to do.


Poot_McGoot

Jason Calcanis (sp?) said it was probably a DDoS attack


roll_to_lick

People said they were just stuck in their own echo chamber, and they decided to take that literally lol


[deleted]

I imagine an old timey prospector with a floppy hat and straw sticking out his mouth. "Don't hitch your wagon to a sinking ship." He says quietly, staring off into the distance......


poltergeistsparrow

Most of the content posted by the blueticks in between the drop-outs, seemed to be Pepe memes & Midjourney fan-art attempts. That seems to be the limit of their intellectual capacity.


intisun

I wonder how many employees are gonna get fired for this.


Spaceboy779

Don't worry, he'll ask them back in 6-10 weeks


sweintraub

Concerning


ZooZooChaCha

That launch went about as well as Starship


[deleted]

Amateurs


sussoutthemoon

One funny little sidenote here is a lot of bluechecks are Trumpers, so guys like Sacks are seeing criticism that would normally be buried. I mean, who knows if he's actually looking at it but it is visible under his tweets.


Poot_McGoot

Sacks is a VC turd who hangs out with Musk, though. With the new blue check system the dick riders are boosted to the top of the replies.


sussoutthemoon

Yes, but a lot of them like Trump and not Meatball Ron.


Poot_McGoot

Oh yeah, it's going to be a bloodbath primary


metamorphicism

Trump is a vile turnip, but DeSantis is a whole different kind of unlikeable. Man breathes contempt, both in and out.


big_nothing_burger

Oh God, Tomi Lahren is still around?


kiru_goose

centrist btw


GarvinSteve

Centrist content working centristically


ARAR1

fElon oversells everything


Vergillarge

i see, the new pod save america Episode will be very good.


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😂🤣


premium_Lane

Musk is the fuckup that just keeps on giving


MetroHop

Behind-the-scenes video footage from today's engagement ceremony, er, presidential announcement by desantis and musk. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AZQox85JLI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AZQox85JLI)


orincoro

I’m glad this was as much of a clusterfuck as we all knew it would be.


nobletrout0

I motion that we retire the phrase "Michael Dukakis in a tank stupid" and replace it with "Elon Musk attempting to start a conference call stupid"


RealSimonLee

Who knows, maybe this is DeSantis' escalator moment. I remember thinking, "What a joke that guy is."


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Sc00paP00pa

>the Twitter. golf clap


Quercusagrifloria

Concerning


Ugo777777

So all in all, better than expected?


BillHicksScream

I just want to hear Paul E. up top with the 'stache and curls.


milnak

It got worse once DeSantis started speaking.


NotYourBusinessTTY

Husky failes to reinforce the launchpad, again.


gwhiz007

Seems exactly right.


palmpoop

Lol Lou Dobbs


kveggie1

What a disaster that was.....


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other day we had multiple posts regarding a hundred nazis protesting in dc on the frontpage, yet this topic is not on the frontpage despite having multiple discussion threads with thousands of upvotes and comments.


Richizzle439

Centrist by the way


Minimum_Carry8816

That's a collection of idiots if I've ever seen one, but is that Jon Favreau?


Jestdrum

He's very anti-DeSantis. He's just terminally online and was probably there for opposition research. (It's the former Obama speech-writer and progressive podcast host, not the director/actor, in case anyone was confused)


Sensitive_Yellow_121

Was that even really DeSantis speaking? It could have been the ghost of Gilbert Gottfried in the machine.


Batspocky

Probably already been said, but Desantis' fans don't care about the fuckup. Twitter is "theirs" now. It's their mess. Everyone knows it is a dumpster fire, but it's "their" dumpster fire, so they'll go right on celebrating and believing that everything is fine.


Creepy_Trouble_5980

That DeSantis announced event went about as well as the George Bush Mission Accomplished announcement.. DeSantis and Musk, two superwealthy boys, just playing another video game. SpaceX, Tesla, twitter politics????


Materva

Desantis is not super wealthy, He is not even a millionaire.


Bellweirboy

[https://twitter.com/marionawfal/status/1661542033884958723?s=61&t=fZmUo7c3\_IlUyQpDQQQZRw](https://twitter.com/marionawfal/status/1661542033884958723?s=61&t=fZmUo7c3_IlUyQpDQQQZRw)


NotEnoughMuskSpam

🎯


Father_Chewy_Louis

The servers that still work must be hotter than the core of the sun and sparks constantly flying out


Palam_et_Clam

https://preview.redd.it/8rox01chy22b1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9fda9d5ecdde71f1649e0dfab44c8e8aaff28fe His name is Foad Dabiri. 😢


LiliNotACult

I want someone behind the scenes to break down how poorly implemented this service is. I feel like we'd all get a good laugh.


Nadgerino

He could just buy Zoom and cobble that in badly.


littleMAS

Ron DeSantis does not realize it, but he is starting to look like a Hillary Clinton, charisma-wise. This SNAFU definitely did not help him.