Announcement on Twitter – with Elon Musk present – was marred by technical glitches. We look at what happened
How was the DeSantis launch affected?
As the live stream began, the audio feed was affected by feedback, outages and garbled audio. Listeners reported theirapps crashing or logging them out as they tried to join the event. After 20 minutes of audio chaos, the stream cut out before restarting. DeSantis was able to declare his bid 25 minutes after the event had been due to start.According to the participants, the platform seemed to have been overwhelmed by the number of listeners.
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