Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a big splash on Twitter with a video clip of himself strolling right into the technology titan’s headquarters ahead of his takeover of the firm.
Musk, who is established to formally have ownership of the social media platform by Friday, shared a clip of himself walking right into Twitter’s entrance hall while carrying a sink.
” Entering Twitter HQ– let that sink in!” Musk said loudly with an aesthetic word play here.
Several Musk fans as well as various other conservatives rallied behind the billionaire.
” Allow Flexibility Ring!” GOP commentator Wesley Quest responded.
” I can’t also compute how much money I ‘d pay to review the Slack conversation of Twitter staff members today. Definitely would pay extra to review the thoughts of ‘Material Moderators,'” Substack reporter Glenn Greenwald composed.
Conventional comedians the Hodge Twins claimed, “Elon round to make Twitter excellent once again.”
” Boy it makes me pleased to see Elon Musk at Twitter HQ after 13 years on this system obtaining censored and also shadowbanned and also taking away fans. LET FLEXIBILITY RING!” journalist Emily Miller tweeted.
” If you didn’t like The Babylon Bee calling an adult man a man, you might have just not followed them on Twitter. Look what you did,” The Daily Cable’s Frank J. Fleming aimed out.
Others, however, did not see the humor in Musk’s video clip.
” This is essentially cruel,” CNN expert Juliette Kayyem reacted. “Whatever the masters of the universe are making with this website, lots as well as great deals of individuals– not elegant individuals, just individuals with children as well as homes and also getaway strategies and who make business run and rich males richer– will certainly lose their resources.”
” He’s such a piece of garbage,” Mississippi Free Press press reporter Ashton Pittman tweeted.
” Tech billionaire with really strong, eccentric and commonly half-baked views on national politics, powered by substantial ego, is live-tweeting his takeover of this platform,” Der Spiegel journalist Mathieu von Rohr wrote.
The nine-second video clip has actually already gathered over 16 million views in the matter of hours.
Musk likewise altered his Twitter bio to review “Principal Twit” as well as later on tweeted, “Meeting a whole lot of trendy people at Twitter today!”
Last spring, Musk was set to buy Twitter for $44 billion yet after that tried to draw out of the offer after he accused the firm of being deceitful pertaining to the number of crawlers that got on the system. Twitter, in return, took Musk to court to compel him into acquiring the company. In current weeks, Musk transformed his song as well as promised to continue with the original deal.
Traditionalists have widely supported the Musk takeover as the billionaire magnate has indicated his assistance free of cost speech concepts while liberals have seemed the alarm that Musk will allow “false information” as well as hateful web content to run rampant as well as possibly restore former President Trump’s Twitter account.