What went wrong at Ron DeSantis’s US presidential campaign launch?

Announcement on Twitter - with Elon Musk present - was marred by technical glitches. We look at what happened

The launch of Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign on Twitter was marred by technical glitches on Wednesday evening.

Elon Musk, Twitter's owner, has sought to diversify Twitter's audience, describing himself as a free speech absolutist" while also reinstating previously banned accounts such as Donald Trump's. However, he has also cut costs severely, leading to warnings that the platform could become prone to outages more regularly.