Glitches, outages, less employees: Why Twitter Spaces may be in trouble

Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter late in October 2022, it has been in the news mostly for the wrong reasons. Musk fired over 50% of the staff when he took over the company and reports indicated that most of the problems at the social media company are due to staff shortage. Recently, Florida governor Ron DeSantis used one of the platform’s features, Twitter Spaces, to announce he was entering the 2024 presidential race. However, frequent glitches and outages marred the event, and now, we may have an idea why this happened.

What is Twitter Spaces
Twitter Spaces live audio feature allows Twitterati to join audio chats with other users of the platform. There’s a Spaces tab in Twitter’s mobile app that includes podcasts as well. Users can select shows from multiple topics including news, music, and sports. Twitter also suggests new audio content based on the user’s interests.