Published 09:07 IST, January 17th 2022

Elon Musk trolls himself with Twitter sign-up meme: 'I never tweet anything controversial'

Musk has been quite outspoken on Twitter, calling Public transit consultant Jarrett Walker “an idiot” one time and poking fun at Tesla's financial health

Reported by: Zaini Majeed
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"Twitter is a war zone. If somebody's going to jump in war zone, it's like, okay, you're in arena. Let's go,” Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk h once said during "60 Minutes" interview when he was questioned about his ‘most controversial tweets’ yet. On Sunday, Musk, widely kwn for posting jokes and "dank memes” in a sarcastic comment  said that he “never shares anything controversial” on Twitter. 

Interestingly Hyperloop and Boring Company founder backed his statement with yet ar hilarious meme that re: “Get fired from your job in 5 to 10 years, join Twitter today.” im shared by Musk depicted signup p for Microblogging site Twitter with easiest options to get fired: Say anything you want, n wait for 5 to 10 years, and “Surprise! You’re fired.”

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While Elon Musk is kwn to speak his mind and is endeared by his followers for this quality, Tesla boss, many times h to deal with consequences of his tweets later—mostly in terms of Tesla’s stock prices fluctuation. Musk has also h to deal with investor's lawsuits and investigations from Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Department of Justice for some of his tweets that riled up market. 

Musk has also been quite outspoken on Twitter, calling Public transit consultant Jarrett Walker “an idiot” one time and poking fun at questions about Tesla's financial health in a newspaper style taking a jibe at cover of his own firm on April Fools' Day Twitter thre. "Tesla Goes Bankrupt Palo Alto, California, April 1, 2018 -- Despite intense efforts to raise money, including a last-ditch mass sale of Easter Eggs, we are s to report that Tesla has gone completely and totally bankrupt. So bankrupt, you can't believe it," Musk wrote. This did t please his investors and analysts. 

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Musk and Walker h a brief back and forth after former tweeted that public transport is painful. “It sucks. Why do you want to get on something with a lot of or people, that doesn't leave where you want it to leave, doesn't start where you want it to start, doesn't end where you want it to end?” To this walker replied, ”hatred of sharing with strangers is a luxury (or pathology) that only rich can afford.” Musk in response declared his critic an “idiot.”

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Musk also garnered controversy after Twitter appointed new CEO Parag Agrawal and Tesla boss shared a photoshopped im of Agrawal in Stalin’s position and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in role of Nikolay Yezhov, a close Stalin associate as a way of condemning Parag’s views of censorship at Twitter, especially far-right political sources as he h earlier mentioned. 

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Agrawal h once tweeted, "If y are t gonna make a distinction between Muslims and extremists, n why should I distinguish between white people and racists,’” a quote from “ Daily Show.” He h also told MIT Techlogy Review that Twitter isn’t “bound by First Amendment,” and his comments were disapproved by far-right and Conservative political figures who condemned  Twitter ban on former Republican President Donald Trump.

Musk h n taken a swipe at Twitter’s views about imposing curbs on free speech. While Musk is stranger to causing a stir on social media, he h also said in an interview with his biographer, Ashlee Vance that he “doesn't stand by all tweets I've ever done” as some of m are “definitely extremely dumb.”

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09:06 IST, January 17th 2022