Webdesk: Twitter crashed during Elon Musk’s live audio conference with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Technical issues hampered DeSantis’ Republican presidential nomination announcement. Musk has laid off several software bug-fixing workers since taking over Twitter in October.
Former and current Twitter employees worried the huge labour reduction would make the platform prone to crashes amid high usage. On Wednesday, venture capitalist David Sacks, Musk’s close friend, said, “We’ve got so many people here that I think we are kind of melting the servers, which is a good sign.”
The number of listeners and Musk’s large Twitter following were blamed. Despite the crashes, 678,000 people listened to the discussion. Spaces resumed with 304,000 listeners.
3 million people watched Musk’s BBC Twitter Spaces interview last month. Since Musk bought Twitter, outages have increased. Users had trouble accessing platform connections in March. NetBlocks, an internet watchdog, reported that Twitter had six major outages this year, compared to three last year.
On Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden mocked DeSantis’ presidential campaign by tweeting, “This link works.” “Failure to Launch,” “Crashed,” and #DeSaster trended on Twitter in the US due to chat disruptions.
Twitter’s persistent technical failures under Musk increase concerns about its stability and reliability, especially during key events and high user activity. The platform’s vulnerability to crashes may be due to the layoffs of experienced bug-fixing engineers, stressing the necessity for good infrastructure and support to keep consumers happy.
