ELON MUSK DUMPS TWITTER FOR REDDIT
Tesla boss dumps microblogging site for Reddit
San Francisco, Nov. 2: Tesla chief Elon Musk fired off a tweet indicating that he is disconnecting from Twitter, perhaps in favor of popular news and discussion platform Reddit.
Kicking the Twitter habit would be a radical change for the colorful serial entrepreneur who is known for tweeting so freely that he landed in hot water with the US Securities and Exchange Commission which accused him of misleading investors on the platform.
“Not sure about good of Twitter,” Musk told his more than 29 million followers in a series of rapidfire tweets.
“Reddit still seems good.””Going offline,”
Musk concluded.
Musk is being sued for defamation in Los Angeles by a man who helped in the dramatic rescue of 12 boys trapped in an underwater cave in Thailand last year.
Musk called the British caver a “pedo guy” on Twitter following a highly public spat between the two after Musk travelled to Thailand and offered to assist in rescue efforts.
Musk said in a court filing last month that he did not mean to accuse the caver of pedophilia when he referred to him as “pedo guy.” In the filing, Musk claimed the term was a common insult used in South Africa when he was growing up, synonymous with “creepy old man.” The case is set to go to trial on December 2. Musk’s trouble with the SEC meanwhile stems from multiple tweets.
In February 2018 he posted that Tesla would make 5,00,000 cars in 2019 — up from the 4,00,000 that the company had estimated until then, an apparent increase on a benchmark tied to profitability, which elicited a rebuke from the SEC.
In another incident, Musk claimed on the platform that he had secured funding to take Tesla private, which was quickly aborted, leading the SEC to accuse him of defrauding investors.