Elon Musk Just Deleted The Facebook Pages Of His Companies SpaceX And Tesla On A Twitter Dare!
Honestly, this shouldn't surprise you one bit.
It¡¯s Friday night again, and you know what that means. Yep, it¡¯s time for Elon Musk to be usual weird self again.
In a tweetstorm surrounding the #DeleteFacebook movement, Musk has made one of his usual impetuous moves and deleted the Facebook pages for both Tesla and SpaceX. You know, the official ones with close to 3 million followers each.
Musk was responding to a number of tweets when he decided to crack wise on a post by Signal founder and co-founder of WhatsApp Brian Acton.
What¡¯s Facebook?
¡ª Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 23 March 2018
Afterward, one of Musk¡¯s followers suggested Musk would delete SpaceX¡¯s Facebook page if he was really ¡°the man¡±. Of course, you know the SpaceX founder can¡¯t resist a cheeky challenge.
I didn¡¯t realize there was one. Will do.
¡ª Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 23 March 2018
Another suggested Tesla should go too, to which Musk agreed, saying it was too boring to keep up anyway.
Definitely. Looks lame anyway.
¡ª Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 23 March 2018
Of course, everyone thought it was all fun and games. Until it wasn¡¯t anymore.
slayyyyyyyy pic.twitter.com/zWhZF8biBU
¡ª Ryan Mac (@RMac18) 23 March 2018
Now, with the frenzied mob having slaked their thirst for blood, they clamoured for more. Next up on the hit list was SpaceX¡¯s Instagram. Thankfully, Musk kept a head on his shoulders and didn¡¯t put his social media manager completely out of a job.
Instagram¡¯s probably ok imo, so long as it stays fairly independent. I don¡¯t use FB & never have, so don¡¯t think I¡¯m some kind of martyr or my companies are taking a huge blow. Also, we don¡¯t advertise or pay for endorsements, so ¡ don¡¯t care.
¡ª Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 23 March 2018
Musk¡¯s move rounds up an absolutely terrible week for Facebook, what with the Cambridge Analytica scandal, #DeleteFacebook, the subsequent investigations and lawsuits. It¡¯s...really not been Zuckerberg¡¯s week.
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On a side note, why don¡¯t people take Elon Musk seriously? The man makes some insane promises, but he always delivers when it¡¯s in his power. Remember the freaking flamethrower?
Now all that remains to be seen is if the deactivated Facebook pages remain offline or he reinstates them after a while. Frankly, we¡¯re hoping he has the cojones to do the former.
