Twitter customers and haters alike have had no downside airing their grievances in regards to the modifications which have come to the platform since Tesla CEO Elon Musk took over late final yr.
Although Musk stands by his claims that the sweeping modifications he is made, comparable to eradicating legacy blue checkmarks for verified profiles and permitting Twitter Blue subscribers to edit their Tweets after they have been posted, are enhancements for the higher, he is now being roasted for seemingly taking a step backward with Twitter’s latest livestreaming characteristic.
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The billionaire examined the brand new characteristic on Wednesday by broadcasting a livestream to his 138 million Twitter followers.
Nonetheless, customers rapidly seen that the stream was pixelated and low-resolution all through everything of the 4-minute and 26-second reside video.
“We’re simply testing the reside video characteristic so we will see if it really works, and we will modify it accordingly,” Musk says in the course of the stream.
He and one other Twitter worker verify within the video that the code they’re utilizing to energy the livestream comes from the 2015 code for Periscope, a livestreaming app that was acquired by Twitter earlier than its official unbiased launch and was discontinued in 2021.
Musk’s stream reached a peak of roughly 150,000 reside viewers earlier than the video crashed and ended, although the clip, which now lives on his Twitter profile, has since been seen greater than 9.2 million instances.
Many Twitter customers reposted Musk’s stream and lamented the poor high quality of the video.
Okay. This is my prediction. If Elon begins getting the dangle of live-streaming Web will break. However it would in all probability not be with 8-bit Twitter livestreams. I really feel like now we are going to lastly get to do Twitter livestreams that do not appear like the digicam is a potato
— TesLatino (@TesLatino) Could 3, 2023
POV: you spent 45 billion on this app pic.twitter.com/u6VryUMkem
— Bark (@barkmeta) Could 3, 2023
Is he on Mars?…or utilizing a iPhone 2
— Bert (@JerseysSports10) Could 3, 2023
Why does it appear like Skype from 1997?
— Ralph Y (@RalphYA88) Could 3, 2023
Is that this a digicam 50.000 B.C ?
— Cãlin (@Callingjin) Could 3, 2023
Musk has not additional elaborated on his plans for livestreaming on the app.
