For the record, I work in tech currently and I'm a former developer. Nowadays I work in product but I'm very familiar with all of the tech behind this. We deal with similar situations around having to scale up around huge surges in user activity (moving to AWS and Azure really help out in this department). As for the rest of your post, you're taking Musk at his word for everything. I've also heard negative things about Twitter's tech stack but Musk could've done something about it. In fact, he was partially through shutting down the Sacramento data center (with plans to also close down Atlanta) until they started having outages and he realized that redundancy is actually a good thing. And even then, he's done nothing to address the infrastructure problems. Twitter was supposed to migrate a lot of their more complex services to GCP over time but he's all bit killed that project (so he was concurrently stripping down data centers while bringing more services back onto them instead of keeping them in GCP). My point is that you can't just blame everything on everyone else. At some point, you have to judge Musk for the decisions he has made. Additionally, he had days if not weeks to prepare and could have scaled up ahead of the event instead of literally trying desperately to load balance DURING the event. This can't be that hard to anticipate. He's launching an event for a presidential campaign. He probably should consider the possibility of millions of listeners given that Twitter competitors have hosted live events with millions of people. If one of our customers has a sale and there is real performance degradation because we didn't scale up properly, we are responsible. Its no different for Twitter. If I was DeSantis I'd be pretty pissed off at Musk (I'd also probably have written in some sort of SLA requirement into a contract so that I could claim damages from Twitter for this). Twitter is a tech company. It absolutely should be treated as one and compared against its peers. And if you want to compare it to another social media company, Facebook live has hit close to 3 million on a concurrent live event (and again they use video). And if you insist on comparing this to cable, then fine. Cable stations don't have technical issues like this. They host live events like the Super Bowl and deal with over 100 times the audience of DeSantis's announcement.
" I don't care about Twitter or Musk, but here"s a quick thread on why every single thing he does or says is platinum teledildonics for the anus of my soul, 1/394" - @Space Ghost
I mean I think this is real, but it's so bad I almost believe it's from an oppo campaign. Literally looping the same video of DeSantis and Musk over and over.
Twitter has been around since web 2.0. If i were rds, I'd fire my campaign mgr or director of digital promotions. Use Spaces to enhance digital influencers or donors. I guess he was trying to pull an Obama on youtube, but the next thing similar would be something on tiktok. Wrong crowd and suspect platform. I don't think this guy can maintain and keep stadiums but he better find and connect with his medium quickly.
I don’t believe trump has spoke on the issue. But it’s all the right talks about. But when you don’t have actual policy you have to focus on “culture wars”. I was a “both sides bad” person at one point in my life too. Then I realized fighting for equal rights is not equal to taking money from teachers while increasing the deficit.
I saw Musk's "Spaces with @RonDeSantis in ~2hr hours!" tweet and I read it incorrectly as "Safe Space". Then reality kick in. It was a safe space for Ron to officially launch his run for President. Giving a 6-min audio-only uninteractive announcement speech (it sure sounds like a pre-recorded speech) and then being asked questions by his co-worker, political, and media supporters is safe. Side note - soon to come, these online digital space will be handled by political AI avatar.
For most of my adult life I’ve been a political independent including organizing and campaigning for the MN Independence Party. I’ve voted and even donate to Republican candidates. The Republican Party recently has gotten way more extreme pushing Nativism and culture wars. It’s a party less of principle but more of fear and grievance where the ends always justify the means. DeSantis is a perfect example. He could be a capable administrator and has shown at times to be. He’s decided though that his path to power was to follow a grifter, who has now turned against him, and then gone all in on culture wars and spite. Yesterday was a good metaphor for the state of the Republican Party so something that will be seen as edgy, that riles up your base and owns the Libs yet have it be a big incoherent mess.
I get the attraction to think outside the box and do something different, but this was a disaster, I have to assume this did not happen on the fly and that twitter had time to ramp up for this and whatever the issue was it comes off as a failure, you get one chance to make a first impression and they failed. While this will be forgotten over time any story over the next few weeks will bring up this little nugget. I am 100% down for tiny ron and trump to go toe to toe, I have not seen ANYONE stand up to trump and his base and I think tiny ron will try and dance around the topic because in the end if trump wins tiny ron will have to do the cruz walk of shame and go back and kiss the ring...............if tiny ron doesn't play this right the state of Florida and his base will turn on him over being mean to the king. I think tiny ron runs to far to the right for a general election, I am not sure if he was always this way or simply does it to fire up his base, from all accounts the people of Florida love him and maybe he should stay in his lane and should have waited until trump was in prison to run, he could have been the hero to the gop now he will feel the wrath of 53% of the gop
