Former Trump senior economic adviser Steve Moore shares his thoughts on Twitter and other social media companies that banned President Trump.
In a tweet on Tuesday, billionaire Elon Musk announced that he would take a break from the social media platform.
“Out of Twitter for a while,” he wrote.
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The tweet got over 357,000 likes and 17,000 retweets at 2:30 pm Eastern Time.
It is not the first time that the founder of Tesla and SpaceX has told followers that he would turn off Twitter.
In a 2019 tweet now deleted, Musk said he would leave – a threat he had made earlier that year – to return just three days later.
Last June, he said he would step aside – tweeting the exactly the same message – but connected again a few days later.
On Monday, Musk joined the Clubhouse social audio app to great fanfare.
Twitter has put the 49-year-old in trouble before, leading to an SEC investigation, $ 40 million in fines and a defamation suit against British speleologist Vernon Unsworth, who he called a “pedo guy”.
Musk’s tweets also had an impact on the stock market, causing Gamestop’s shares to rise 157% on January 27, after tweeting “Gamestonk,” and a 3.5% increase in shares of the Etsy online market on January 26, after tweeting “I kind of love Etsy.” He also helped bitcoin rise 15% on Friday after adding “#bitcoin” to his Twitter biography.
Musk also used the social media platform to announce the launch of several other projects, including building Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin.
On Monday, Musk tweeted that initial human testing at his neurotechnology company, Neuralink, could begin later this year.
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