'#DeSaster': Internet trolls DeSantis after glitchy campaign launch on Twitter Spaces

He was preparing to launch his campaign to win the Republican Party nomination for US Presidential Election in 2024. He chose a novel platform to make the announcement, Twitter Spaces. Twitter owner Elon Musk himself was part of the stream. But what should have been quite a noteworthy announcementfrom Florida Governor Ron DeSantis turned into something that made news for the wrong reasons. The Spacecrashed repeatedly as hemade the announcement, or at least tried to. This cast a shadow on the major eventDeSantis hoped would boost his ratings.About 678,000 people tuned in to listen when the glitches andcrashes took the shine off the announcement. Musk attributed the crashes to the number of listeners and his large following on Twitter.

But the internet is an unforgiving arena. The damage was done and people started trolling DeSantis, whose presidential aspirations seemed to have encountered the first stumbling block even before the campaign started.

US President Joe Biden led the charge.

"This link works," he tweeted, posting a link to the donation page to his re-election campaign.

It would've been a surprise if former US president Donald Trump hadn't jumped at the opportunity to troll DeSantis. Trump has already declared that he would contest the 2024 elections and DeSantis appears to be the last major candidate in his path towinning the Republican nomination.

Trump posted a parody video in which DeSantis was in a Twitter Space with Musk, George Soros, the FBI and even AdolfHitler. Trump posted the video on his Truth Social social media platform. The video was shared by many on Twitter as well.

Other Twitter users were at it too. One of them said Trump was just waiting for DeSantis' Twitter Space to crash.

One Twitter user said that after DeSantis' Twitter Space, Trump was in a 'safe space'

@CoffeeTimesNews trolled DeSantis for eating pudding with his fingers and linked it to his Space.

Some people tried to blame Elon Musk and said he shouldn't have fired the majority of employees at Twitter after taking over.

As DeSantis began to betrolled following the glitchy event, "Failure to Launch", "Crashed" and #DeSaster were among the trending Twitter topics in the US.

Musk's Takeover of Twitter

Musk took over Twitter last year. Soon after acquiring the social media platform, he fired nearly half of the workforce. This had had an effect on Twitter's stability and the platform crashed a number of times last year.

Under Musk, Twitter outages have become more numerous. This year in March, thousands of users said that they were having problems accessing links that were posted on the platform.

Internet observatory NetBlocks said the March incident was Twitter's sixth major outage since the year began, compared with three in the same period last year.

DeSantis hasn't yet commentedabout the problems he faced during the campaign launch on Twitter.

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