Elon Musk is fiddling whereas Rome burns—or moderately shitposting as one among his firms’ inventory worth plummets. Tesla’s worth has dropped precipitously over the previous week and month, with a number of information retailers forecasting the electrical car producer might have its worst yr on document since going public in 2010—and probably even the worst yr of any S&P 500 firm.
In the meantime, Musk has been lively as ever on Twitter. “And you’ve got tiny testicles!,” the world’s second richest individual and the proprietor of 5 totally different firms posted in response to random person @ElGrecoSF—who has about 500 followers on the platform, as of writing—after the account critiqued Musk’s anti-“woke” meme publish.
The unique, unhinged tweet:
The response:
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Nothing says “very steady genius,” or reliable CEO, to traders fairly like tweeting out balls-themed insults to each 500-follower account that responds to your right-wing boomer memes. And sadly for the Twitter/Tesla proprietor, local weather activist Greta Thunberg has cornered the market on primo, genitalia-related clapbacks.
Different latest Musk hits embrace a sequence of vaguely anti-vax, Covid conspiracy adjoining tweets, together with the most recent Twitter Recordsdata installment. Then there’s quite a lot of posts understandably celebrating profitable SpaceX launches, plus, some anti-immigrant fearmongering, and no matter that is imagined to imply:
Within the background, Twitter continues to flail post-acquisition, because the billionaire makes a sequence of more and more complicated, rapid-fire coverage and staffing choices. Musk has introduced in SpaceX workers to assist run the hollowed-out platform, a supply near the matter informed robotechcompany.com on Friday. And regardless of a modest ~3% rebound immediately, Tesla inventory has fallen practically 40% previously month.
All informed, Musk has tweeted, retweeted, or replied on Twitter greater than 50 occasions within the previous 24 hours. It most likely would’ve been extra, but it surely seems to be like he logged off for about 5 hours between 5:07 a.m. ET (2:07 a.m. PT) and 10:13 a.m. ET—hopefully, to get some well-earned sleep.
In any case, the person has a social media platform, an electrical automaker, a personal house exploration firm, a biomedical firm, and a tunneling/building service to run.
