Twitter crashes during US presidential run announcement
Twitter crashed repeatedly on Wednesday during a highly anticipated live audio chat between Elon Musk, Twitter's owner, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, hampering the politician's announcement he is running for the Republican president ial nomination. Since Musk took over the social media platform in October, he has laid off thousands of employees including many engineers who were responsible for fixing software bugs. Current and former Twitter employees previously told Reuters the steep layoffs would put the platform at risk of crashing during times of high traffic. "We've got so many people here that I think we are kind of melting the servers, which is a good sign," said David Sacks, a venture capitalist and close friend of Musk, while attempting to start the event on Wednesday. Musk attributed the problems to the number of listeners and his large Twitter following. About 678,000 people tuned in to listen as Twitter suffered repeated crash...