Elon Musk said he was putting a temporary halt on his much-anticipated deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion, sending shares in the social media giant plummeting.
“Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users.”
This is just one of the many examples why Musk’s nonexistent Twitter filter is perhaps fitting, as he apparently plans to make the platform a place where almost anything goes.
Without further ado, here are 12 badass Elon Musk tweets that left a mark.
Musk’s non-rhetorical flamethrower was on display in 2018 when the entrepreneur retweeted a fake news article claiming that he’d bought the popular video game Fortnite and deleted it to save “kids from eternal virginity.”
Musk is infamous for seemingly torpedoing Tesla stock with tweets so outrageous they would probably make Wall Street want to enlist twitter moderator.
Ethical qualms aside, it’s probably safe to say Twitter won’t be a “boring company” under the Musk regime.
Musk apparently believes that Kanye West would be better suited as president than Biden, having endorsed Ye’s short-lived 2020 presidential campaign.
The world’s richest man is apparently not above mixing it up with the online hoi polloi, as evidenced by this hilarious exchange with a fan over Tesla merchandise.
While many CEOs take pains to tiptoe around sensitive topics, Musk has remained steadfastly politically incorrect in his online discourse.
Pronouns aren’t the only hot topic Musk has thumbed his nose at. The visionary has been infamously dismissive of COVID-19 lockdowns and even stated the “coronavirus panic is dumb” in a tweet with more than 1.5 million likes.
The car magnate has savaged fellow billionaire Bill Gates on multiple occasions, most recently roasting the Microsoft co-founder after Gates seemingly sold Tesla stock short during a tiff about a commitment to fighting climate change.
Musk — who’s worth a cool $240 billion, according to Forbes — confused his Twitter followers with this tweet. The business magnate apparently wasn’t blowing smoke: Earlier this month, Musk said he doesn’t own a home and sleeps in his friends’ “spare bedrooms,” for the most part.
Perhaps Musk’s off-the-cuff posts are altogether unsurprising given that he has claimed he primarily tweets on the toilet.
Some of Musk’s most epic tweets followed his Twitter acquisition, a move that prompted sparking threats of exodus by left-leaning celebs. They claimed that the social media platform would become a cesspool of hate with the Tesla boss at the helm.