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Did you see the news about DeSantis yesterday? Musk convinced him to announce his presidential candidacy on Twitter, and the live stream just didn’t work.

I don’t think that qualifies as “nothing happened” when features used in high-profile events fail, with the CEO and a potential future president left on the line. Any other platform wouldn’t have struggled with a stream of this size.

I guess you might say that’s just one thing, and other than the CEO’s live streams not working, everything is fine. But there are numerous other examples of accumulating paper cuts and failures at Twitter. I think this is close to what most of those doomsayers expected would happen.

Google also recently had a total failure in a public event. It's not necessarily saying much about Twitter.

https://mashable.com/article/google-ai-maps-search-event-bin...

> the AI falsely said the James Webb Space Telescope took the first ever picture of an exoplanet

> During the announcement about a new Lens feature, the demo phone was misplaced and the presenter wasn't able to show the demo

> Google seemed to say, "let's pretend this never happened," and immediately made the livestream recording private after the event

> the live stream just didn’t work

Are you sure ? Others say 6.5 M listened to the livestream that was delayed 20 mins

so was it no longer live, or did they encounter 20 minutes of technical issues that delayed the start? cuz either way it seems pretty obvious that at least for some amount of time it didn't work

They had to switch to David Sack's account to do the livestream and I think there were about 700k listeners that were on at the time of announcment. The issues weren't just infrastructure related, Musk had challenges with his mute button and it was creating feedback because he and Sacks were next to each other on their phones.

But yeah, it could have gone better for various reasons.

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