elon musk He is known for his entrepreneurship, billionaire account and innovative ideas, but he is also famous for his tweets on the bird’s social network, which arouses great interest in the business circle.
Musk, now one of Twitter’s largest shareholders, has already made a lot of sayings and jokes. with your account followers. Sometimes the two get mixed up and it’s not clear whether the post was a joke or a concrete plan.
see some Elon Musk’s biggest Twitter promises over the years and what it actually did:
Turn Twitter Headquarters into a Sanctuary
When: 9 April 2022
What happened?: Four days after Twitter was confirmed as the new board member, Musk posted a poll on the social network, asking if Twitter had turned its headquarters into a haven for the homeless, “because no one’s coming anyway.”
The next day, more than 1.3 million people voted in the poll. In fact, 91.2% voted in favor of the idea. 8.8% said “no”.
Turn Twitter SF HQ into a homeless shelter since no one’s in sight anyway
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2022
Duel with Putin
When: 14 March 2022
What happened: Shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Tesla’s CEO took to his Twitter to challenge Russian President Vladimir Putin to a “hand-to-hand duel.”
“Award Ukraine,” tweeted Musk. He then doubled down on the offer: “If [Putin] If I am afraid to fight, I will agree to use only my left hand. And I’m not even left-handed.”
As far as is known, Putin did not accept the offer.
I challenge
Владимир Путин
one on one fightBets Україна
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 14 March 2022
Starlink in Ukraine
When: February 26, 2022
What happened: Starlink, the lightning-fast satellite internet service, is part of Musk’s space company SpaceX.
Following a request by Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation on Twitter that Musk should do something to help the people of Ukraine during the Russian occupation, the CEO soon said that Starlink services were activated in Ukraine and the necessary equipment for activation was on the way. .
Somehow, the terminals needed to activate the internet arrived in the country next week. Currently, more than 5,000 Starlink terminals are active in the country. Washington Post. One point for Musk.
Sale of Tesla shares to end world hunger
When: October 31, 2021
What happened: In late 2021, Musk wasn’t happy with an article. CNN Business Director of the UN Food Famine Organization, with the caption “2% of Elon Musk’s Wealth Could Help Solve World Hunger”.
“If the World Food Program can explain exactly how $6 billion will solve world hunger, I will now sell my Tesla stake and that’s what I will do,” he said.
If WFP can explain in this Twitter thread exactly how $6 billion will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and I will.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 31, 2021
This led UN WFP overseer David Beasley to say that a donation of this size would “prevent geopolitical instability, mass migration and save 42 million people from the brink of starvation.”
Musk asked Beasley to publish “current and proposed expenditures,” and the auditor asked Musk several times to meet, arguing about the work of PAM and how the donation math would work, but the billionaire stopped responding.
information luck He states that the CEO donated $5.7 billion a few weeks after the interaction, but it is not known to which organization the money was donated.
ventilators for treatment against covid-19
When: 25 March 2020
What happened: At the start of the pandemic, Musk even posted on his Twitter account that the “panic” around the coronavirus was “silly”. He seems to have soon regretted that he wrote in late March that he would help with Covid-19 hospitalizations by purchasing ventilators used to intubate patients.
He then tweeted that he had sent about 1,000 ventilators purchased in China to Los Angeles. However, the information from Financial Times states that it sent the wrong type of ventilator to treat sleep apnea.
The coronavirus panic is stupid
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2020
Submarine will save the crew trapped in the cave
When: 8 July 2018
What happened: Perhaps one of the most striking “muskzies” was when a youth football team was trapped in a cave in Thailand in July 2018. During the days-long rescue, Musk took to Twitter to post a series of videos showing the submarine owned by one of his companies, Boring Co, and stating that he wanted to use technology to save the crew.
Pretty close. To protect the front air hoses from hitting rocks, there is a nose cone on the front with a hole for the hoses to come out.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 8 July 2018
The only problem: Rescuers no longer needed technology that seemed so futuristic for a momentary emergency. The tweets came hours after reports that four of the children had been rescued.
Musk then attacked the diver Vernon Unsworth, who saved the children, on Twitter. CEO, Unsworth”pedo man“means the pedophile who ended up in a defamation lawsuit about a year later.
Musk won the case. “I really didn’t mean he was a pedophile,” he said on the witness stand in December 2019.
