FALLOUT

Musk Firings Blamed for DeSantis Presidential Launch Fiasco

Since taking over Twitter, Musk has reportedly cut the Spaces team from around 100 to just three.

He can send reusable rockets into space and build revolutionary electric vehicles, but it looks like Elon Musk can’t quite manage a livestream. The Substack newsletter Platformer has dived into the much-publicized technical glitches that derailed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign launch Wednesday on Twitter Spaces. The key takeaways: Since taking over Twitter, Musk has cut the Spaces team from around 100 employees to just three; Spaces relies on servers from Amazon Web Services that are “insanely underprovisioned”; and Twitter engineers were simply not ready for hundreds of thousands of people to join the stream simultaneously. Platformer quoted a user on the pseudonymous employee forum Blind who said: "Musk will blame one (or more) of us and fire. That’s his MO.”