Elon Musk has abruptly stopped tweeting.
It is now greater than every week because the Tesla and SpaceX boss posted on the platform that he’s attempting to purchase.
Mr Musk’s final tweet got here on 21 June. That was a reply to a submit concerning the battle between SpaceX and FCC over the previous’s house web programme, Starlink.
A day later, on 22 June, Mr Musk favored a lot of posts. Some of them have been about his try to take over Twitter, and others have been completely unrelated.
But since that day, precisely one week in the past, Mr Musk has not posted on the platform in any respect. He made no announcement a few attainable departure, and has not defined the silence.
He even stayed silent as he crossed the milestone of getting 100 million followers, one thing shared with only a few members of the platform.
Mr Musk is one among Twitter’s most high-profile customers, and is an unusually prolific poster amongst celebrities. Before his unexplained silence, he had posted at the very least as soon as a day for greater than a month.
Still, it’s not the primary time he has give up Twitter for a while. In latest years, he has often introduced that he would cease utilizing the platform – and often come again in a matter of days.
The silence comes amid rising scrutiny of each Twitter and Mr Musk’s use of it. He has been transferring nearer to finalising his buy of the deal, which has been improved by shareholders, however has continued to counsel that the positioning has extra pretend accounts than it publicly admits to.
Mr Musk additionally stopped tweeting very quickly after SpaceX workers organised an open letter that criticised him for his relentless posting and the impact it had on the corporate.
“Elon’s behavior in the public sphere is a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment for us, particularly in recent weeks,” the letter learn.
“As our CEO and most prominent spokesperson, Elon is seen as the face of SpaceX — every tweet that Elon sends is a de facto public statement by the company.”
Soon after, SpaceX was reported to have fired at the very least a number of the workers concerned in organising the letter.
Source: www.impartial.co.uk