what is twitter space
The Twitter Spaces live audio feature allows Twitterati to engage in audio chats with other users of the platform. Twitter’s mobile app has a Spaces tab that also includes podcasts. Users can select shows from a range of topics including news, music and sports. Twitter also suggests new audio content based on the user’s interests.
issues with twitter space
The high-profile event on DeSantis’ Twitter space was plagued by technical glitches. Multiple reports said that first, the program started 20 minutes late and then the audio livestream was cut off before the presidential announcement was made.
The Twitter event attracted more than 600,000 listeners at one point, but by the time the event ended, there were fewer than 300,000 listeners, Reuters news agency said. It is believed that to handle so many people at once, a solid infrastructure is required and a team is needed to manage that infrastructure.
According to a report in The Platformer, the reason it didn’t turn out the way it was planned was because Musk had cut the SpaceX team over the past several months. It once had over 100 employees but now, the number has come down to around three people.
The publication says that for months now, “the Spaces team has been operating without much of its accumulated institutional knowledge” as Twitter added the feature in 2021 to compete with then-hot Clubhouse.
“Practically nobody remaining knows the current architecture in depth,” one person was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, Twitter’s engineering chief Foad Dabiri announced that he is leaving the company. The development comes a day after the launch of Ron DeSantis’ US presidential campaign on the platform was hit with technical issues.
“After nearly four incredible years on Twitter, I decided to leave the nest yesterday,” Dabiri tweeted.