Provocation after entry: Elon Musk questions the survival of Twitter

Provocation after entry
Elon Musk questions the survival of Twitter

No sooner has Elon Musk sat on the Twitter board of directors than the Tesla boss criticized the inactivity of some celebrities on the platform. He also asks the question: “Is Twitter dying?”

After joining Twitter, Tesla founder Elon Musk caused a stir again with a provocative tweet. “Is Twitter dying?” tweeted Musk, who recently became Twitter’s largest shareholder and sits on the company’s board of directors. To justify it, he referred to users like pop singer Justin Bieber, who has many followers but rarely tweets.

In his tweet, Musk linked a statistic of Twitter users with the most followers. Ex-US President Barack Obama is in first place with 131 million followers, followed by pop stars like Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and Rihanna. “Most of these ‘top’ accounts rarely tweet and post very little content,” Musk said. Pop singer Taylor Swift hasn’t posted anything on Twitter for three months, wrote the founder of electric car maker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX. Justin Bieber only tweeted once in a year.

It was announced last Monday that Musk had bought nearly 73.5 million shares from Twitter. With a share of 9.2 percent, the richest person in the world is Twitter’s largest shareholder. On Tuesday, Twitter then announced that Musk would also join the company’s board of directors.

Musk, himself an avid user of the online service with more than 80 million followers, has long been known as a critic of Twitter. The multi-billionaire has repeatedly accused the company of restricting free speech. Analysts had therefore expected that Musk would soon take an active role in the company after buying Twitter shares.

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