According to a source, the Twitter Spaces team, which formerly had as many as one hundred personnel, has been reduced to “roughly three” persons as a result of the “fiasco” that occurred during Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ 2024 US presidential election run on the site this week.
According to Platformer, the Spaces team has been functioning without the majority of the “institutional knowledge it accumulated since Twitter added live audio conversations in 2021 to compete with then-hot Clubhouse.” This situation has persisted for some months at this point.
Spaces has been running without “institutional knowledge it accumulated since Twitter added live audio conversations in 2021 to compete with then-hot Clubhouse” for months.
Twitter Spaces has “approximately three” workers out of a total of 100.
“Practically no one remaining knows the current architecture in depth,” one individual commented on a pseudonymous employee forum called Blind. “Blind”
After the problem had persisted for close to twenty minutes, DeSantis was eventually able to make the announcement.
According to what DeSantis said, “I am running for President of the United States to lead our great American comeback.”
Musk and David Sacks, an entrepreneur in the IT industry, both agreed that the restricted capacity of Twitter’s servers was a factor in the difficulties the company experienced in starting the event.
“By a wide margin, this was the largest room that has ever been hosted on social media. After some initial difficulties with scale, Twitter functioned quite well. In a tweet, Sacks expressed his gratitude to the Twitter team for being able to rapidly adapt and create history.
However, the CEO of Twitter who is stepping down from his position stated that the technological “fiasco” was really the “top story on earth,” and he encourages all contenders for the US presidential election to use his platform.
