Elon Musk roasted over low-res Twitter video: ‘You spent $45 billion on this app’
Elon Musk posted a low-resolution video to his 140 million Twitter followers wherein he’s barely seen — prompting customers to mock the extremely pixelated clip by calling the mogul “8-Bit Elon.”
Musk on Tuesday started livestreaming from Twitter headquarters in San Francisco.
The tech titan advised his followers that he was testing out Twitter’s livestreaming function to be able to search for areas of enchancment.
Musk smiled and laughed in astonishment as he noticed that the livestreaming function “works.”
A Twitter staffer seen close by is overheard telling Musk that the livestream was powered by the identical code that underpinned the app Periscope, the dwell video straming app that launched in 2015 and was finally acquired by Twitter.
“That is 2015 Periscope code,” Musk mentioned. “It mainly works.”
“We’re simply testing the dwell video function so we are able to see if it really works, and we are able to modify it accordingly,” he mentioned.
“Simply enhance the decision.”
Periscope was discontinued in 2021 resulting from declining utilization and the excessive value of maintaining it working.
“It’s fairly low res, we positively want to enhance decision,” Musk mentioned within the clip.
“That’s precisely proper. That’s why we needed to take it out as a result of we haven’t fastened it in like 8 years,” mentioned a Twitter worker.
When Musk is advised that there are 27,000 folks watching him, he mentioned: “Good day, everybody!”
Ultimately, the viewer rely soars to 150,000 folks earlier than it crashes altogether.
Twitter customers teased Musk, evaluating him to the 8-bit video video games that have been well-liked within the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties.
Others famous that he spent greater than $44 billion to purchase Twitter just for the app to supply a low-resolution streaming possibility.