Since billionaire Musk took over the social media platform in October 2022, he has fired thousands of employees, including many engineers responsible for fixing software bugs.
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Current and former Twitter employees have said that mass layoffs would put the platform at risk of crashing during times of high traffic.
“We have so many people here that I think we’re crashing the servers, which is a good sign,” said David Sacks, a venture capitalist and close friend of Musk’s.
Musk blamed the problems on his large Twitter following and the number of listeners. About 678,000 people tuned in to the audio stream.
The event was eventually able to go ahead, reaching around 304,000 listeners. However, that was far below the roughly 3 million people who listened to Musk's interview with the BBC on Twitter Spaces last month.
Screenshot of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis officially announcing his candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on May 24, 2023. Photo: Twitter
Twitter outages have become more frequent under Musk’s ownership. In March, thousands of users reported problems accessing links posted on the platform.
The March incident was Twitter's sixth major outage since the start of 2023, compared with just three in the same period last year, according to internet watchdog NetBlocks.
Following the incidents on Wednesday, US President Joe Biden mocked DeSantis's campaign announcement by tweeting a symbolic appeal: "This link works."
Hoang Hai (according to Reuters, Twitter)
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