Biden Trolls As DeSantis’ Twitter Event Dies In Glitches

May 24, 2023 Democrats, Joe Biden

The Hill reports:

President Biden on Wednesday mocked the issue-laden presidential campaign launch of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), whose attempt to talk about his candidacy on Twitter Spaces was marred by tech problems. “This link works,” Biden posted on his personal Twitter account, linking to a donation page for his campaign.

The tweet came as the conversation that was set to feature DeSantis discussing his brand new campaign with Twitter CEO Elon Musk was beset by audio issues.

DeSantis and Musk were supposed to speak on a Twitter Spaces, and hundreds of thousands of people had tuned in to listen. But the audio repeatedly cut out and nobody could be heard for more than a few seconds at a time.

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This link works: https://t.co/9PzIJkseYI

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 24, 2023

Ron DeSantis’ Twitter Spaces campaign launch has, so far, featured:

-Several minutes of silence
-Random throat clearing
-Muffled commentary from Elon Musk about why Spaces isn’t working
-Hosts, including DeSantis disappearing

Great start to his campaign! pic.twitter.com/Zppxlk5HkN

— jordan (@JordanUhl) May 24, 2023

Fewer than 500,000 people are trying to listen to this Ron DeSantis campaign launch on Twitter spaces and it is crashing everyone’s phones. Imagine what would happen if a large amount of people actually showed up.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) May 24, 2023

Is Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch on Twitter Spaces an example of how he would lead our country?

— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) May 24, 2023

Twitter Spaces has exploded just minutes after takeoff.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) May 24, 2023

Twitter engineers right now with the Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk Spaces that keeps crashing pic.twitter.com/Y0SE5tHVeT

— Derek Schwartz (@derek_mafs) May 24, 2023

Twitter spaces has just had a rapid unscheduled disassembly. pic.twitter.com/RKbp4DpvMz

— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) May 24, 2023

In preparation for the Ron DeSantis/Elon Musk event, a lot of Fox News viewers are out there right now calling their grandkids to ask how they set the VCR to tape “Twitter Spaces.”

— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) May 24, 2023