Elon Musk’s Event With Ron DeSantis Exposes Twitter’s Weaknesses

"Mr. Musk is u201ca good businessman,u201d Mr. DeSantis said."

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"Mr. DeSantisu2019s aouncement had been an opportunity for Mr. Musk, an unpredictable executive with interests in many fields, to promote his multiple agendas."

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"Mr. DeSantis had not said a word at that point."

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"Hosting Floridau2019s governor, Ron DeSantis, in a Twitter audio event on Wednesday to aounce his presidential run was supposed to be a triumphant moment for Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter."

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"Twitteru2019s systems recovered, the employees said, but the restarted livestream with Mr. DeSantis had a smaller audience, with about 275,000 listeners."

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"On Wednesday after the Twitter Space restarted, Mr. DeSantis finally got the chance to speak."

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"There was no planning for what are known as u201csite reliability issuesu201d for the event with Mr. DeSantis, two of the people said, and workers were prepared to do whatever they could to keep the social network running."

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"A self-proclaimed moderate, Mr. Musk voted for Democratic presidential candidates like Barack Obama and Mr. Biden."

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"A self-proclaimed moderate, Mr. Musk voted for Democratic presidential candidates like Barack Obama and Mr. Biden."

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"He has posted critically about what he calls the u201cwoke mind virusu201d affecting Democratic politics, has shared right-wing conspiracy theories and has repeatedly praised Mr. DeSantis for nearly a year."

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"Others took potshots at the failure, with President Bidenu2019s personal @JoeBiden account tweeting a donation link with the words, u201cThis link works."

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"Sacks, a tech executive who moderated the audio event with Mr. DeSantis and who is a confidant of Mr. Musku2019s, tried downplaying the technical problems."

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