It looks like Mets owner Steve Cohen gave up on Twitter.
The Mets owner looked delete his account on Friday night – first noticed around 9:20 pm – after a very active and eventful week on the social media platform, with the hedge fund billionaire in the midst of GameStop’s stock chaos.
Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management and the Citadel hedge fund managed by billionaire Ken Griffin had reportedly invested $ 2.75 billion in Melvin Capital Management, which was crushed after an overdraft attempt on GameStop shares. Melvin is commanded by Cohen’s former protégé, Gabe Plotkin. Cohen’s net worth is estimated at $ 14.6 billion,
“Rough crowd on Twitter tonight,” Cohen tweeted Wednesday night. “Hey, the jockeys keep bringing.
On Thursday, Cohen took to Twitter with Dave Portnoy after the founder of Barstool Sports criticized the Mets owner for restrictions on trading apps like Robinhood, which were hurting novice investors behind the GameStop stock price increase .
“Hey, Dave, what’s your problem with me,” Cohen tweeted back. “I’m just trying to make a living like you. Happy to take that offline. ”
The two seemed to find mutual respect in the end, when Portnoy tweeted: “At least you’re talking and trying to answer. This is appreciated. “
Portnoy seemed to take some pleasure in Cohen deleting his account by responding to a tweet about the news with an emoji of a smiling face with sunglasses.
Cohen’s tweets about the GameStop situation did not please WFAN morning presenter Boomer Esiason. The former NFL defender downloaded on Friday’s “Boomer and Gio Show”, saying he would stop going to the games “until I found out exactly what’s going on here” with Cohen’s involvement.
“Hey, I don’t want to hear that from you, do you understand what I mean?” Esiason said. “Your hedge fund billionaire. Just keep your mouth shut. The other thing is that he also launched another one: ‘Hey, bag jockeys, keep bringing it.’ So he’s dismissing the Reddit WallStreetBets folks as ‘bag jockeys’ and shooting them as if he knows what’s going on, because he’s sitting in this hedge fund chair making all those decisions.
“I hate it. That’s why I told you this morning, when I joined, I said, ‘You know what, I swear to God, I’m not going to another Met game until I find out exactly what’s going on here. It really makes me feel bad. the stomach. ”
Cohen interacting with Mets fans on Twitter, receiving suggestions and prompting the return of black T-shirts has become part of the new owner’s charm. This seems to be on hold for now. The other WFAN presenter and Mets fan, Evan Roberts, was amused that Cohen closed his account.
“It wasn’t even a brutal collapse in the 9th entry that would send Steve Cohen away from Twitter!” Roberts tweeted.