Foad Dabiri’s resignation came one day after Ron DeSantis launched his 2024 campaign on the platform amidst technical difficulties and glitches.
A chief engineer at Twitter announced he was leaving the company a day after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ launch of his 2024 presidential bid on the platform was beset by technical glitches.
« After almost four incredible years at Twitter, I decided to leave the nest yesterday, » Foad Dabiri, whose LinkedIn profile describes him as director of engineering at Twitter, tweeted on Thursday.
On Wednesday, DeSantis launched his presidential campaign on Twitter Spaces, but the platform’s audio live-streaming tool proved tricky for Florida’s Republican governor and Twitter’s owner Elon Musk. The tool repeatedly crashed in the lead-up to the highly anticipated call, leading to a nearly half-hour delay.
The sound dropped for long stretches and the thousands of users who had tuned in for the call were unable to listen in.
While Musk said the problems were due to « straining » servers because so many people were trying to listen in to the event, which was audio-only, the number of listeners only topped out at around 420,000.
