SAN FRANCISCO: Glitches marring the Twitter launch of Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign Wednesday put fresh dents in Elon Musk’s hopes of turning the network into a Fox News challenger, fueling doubts over the billionaire’s right-wing pivot.
Just a few hundred thousand people tuned in for the audio-only livestream with DeSantis, but even with that relatively small audience for a virtual online assembly – videogames such as Fortnite regularly host audiences in the millions – it was vexed by crashes and delays for nearly half an hour.
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