Elon Musk And Ron DeSantis Turn Attention To 2024 White House Race
This week, Ron DeSantis, the 46th governor of Florida, took to Twitter Spaces to announce his presidential run in the 2024 election. Around 500,000 people had connected to Twitter Spaces. However, the app crashed and the Twitter Space had to be restarted. After some time, as many as 600,000 people wanted to join the Space. However, only 161,000 people were able to hear the live audio chat.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who purchased Twitter in October last year, was left furious when the app crashed. According to Platformer, Musk’s own app — an employee-only version app called Earlybird — crashed multiple times during the Twitter Space.
With this, Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis turned the public’s attention to the 2024 White House race. Ron DeSantis wants to launch his presidential bid in the 2024 election.
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Recently, three sources told NBC News that Ron DeSantis would announce that he is running for the presidency during a discussion with Twitter’s owner Elon Musk. Sources claimed that Musk and DeSantis would host an event on Twitter Spaces.
During the Wall Street Journal’s 2023 CEO Summit Council, Twitter’s owner confirmed his participation in DeSantis’ announcement for the 2024 presidential bid. Musk said, “I think it’s quite groundbreaking that there be a major announcement of this type on social media.”
The recent Twitter Spaces by Ron DeSantis was “by far the biggest room ever held on social media”, according to David Sacks, a venture capitalist and former PayPal executive.
According to analysts, Musk’s participation in Twitter Spaces is viewed as a sign of support for Ron DeSantis. However, on Friday, Musk praised an advertisement by Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., one of DeSantis’ rivals for the GOP nomination in the upcoming election.
Musk did not openly talk about his support for any candidate in the White House election.
