When it comes to dominating social media platforms, Tesla CEO and meme lord, Elon Musk, is arguably the undisputed king. The world’s richest man, on Thursday, announced that he offered to buy the microblogging site, Twitter, for $43 billion, saying the social media company “needs to be transformed as a private company.”
Will endeavor to keep as many shareholders in privatized Twitter as allowed by law
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 14, 2022
The news spread like a wildfire, as it should be considering the huge fan-following of Elon Musk, who currently enjoys around 82 million followers on Twitter alone, and it garnered mixed responses from the netizens.
Conservatives rejoiced at the news calling it the best decision. While libertarian left did not seem to enjoy it much and considered options of leaving the platform if it ever happened.
With #ElonMusk currently trending on Twitter, we picked out some of the best ones.
How people jumped to Elon Musk’s support:
The best thing about Elon Musk's takeover would be the automatic employment sorting mechanism. Takes care of virtually all HR problems immediately. https://t.co/iWZbmG2mgf
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 14, 2022
Go Elon pic.twitter.com/N0XQKbYaHZ
— The_Smoking_Gnu (@IAMDINGSOC) April 15, 2022
Way to go Elon! pic.twitter.com/c6trsvu2c5
— Adrianne Pegg (@AdriannePegg) April 9, 2022
https://twitter.com/RealSaltySlim/status/1514620784861278217?s=20&t=CgifSWhxAPjLF95pGKZamA
Let's Go Elon or Let's Go Brandon??? #ElonMusk pic.twitter.com/3lzL3TiySI
— El Rey Mago 🎶 (@KingBeltran222) April 14, 2022
GO ELON pic.twitter.com/QxdGtUTQsm
— DROSS (@eldiariodedross) April 15, 2022
Trump to Elon- how did you get my account back from the Twitter ?
Elon-.. #ElonMuskTwitter pic.twitter.com/JQm6XI31Uj— Soumi . (@Soumi09) April 14, 2022
https://twitter.com/VanyaaSingh/status/1514589321398939648?s=20&t=VMqMes6yUjGs0TtlUipZow
Some criticized Musk’s move:
GO ELON!@elonmusk pic.twitter.com/8FY3eVLKER
— whowhatwherewolf (@whowatwherewolf) April 15, 2022
Twitter is too important to be owned and controlled by a single person. The opposite should be happening. Twitter should be decentralized as a protocol that powers an ecosystem of communication products and services.
— Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) April 14, 2022
"Go Elon" ????
Yep. Go f* yourself.
And stop tryin’ to artificially raise stock prices and use insider trading tactics. pic.twitter.com/bvJnnvK7FN
— Kitniss Everseen ʕ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ (@sk8ergirl_1) April 15, 2022
https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1514584619701739520?s=20&t=5EkqCDegIzT-EeD5un9iOw
Maybe this is a good thing, after all, Elon Musk!
I hope Elon buys Twitter and deletes it. Just throw the Bird right in the garbage. Set all of us dumpster dwelling addicts free from this hellscape
— KFC (@KFCBarstool) April 14, 2022
