Just another day for Musk on Twitter

It all started on Thursday at 4:16pm New York time, with a tweet that’s racked up more than 29,000 likes and 4,400 retweets: “Just want to that the Shortseller Enrichment Commission is doing incredible work. And the name change is so on point!”

Just over an hour later, he followed up with replies to a follower, seeking to reassure him of Tesla’s long-term prospects: “Hang in there. If you are truly long-term, it will be fine.”

Musk continued his tirade against “short sellers” by sending out another inflammatory post at 5:40pm calling for their activities to be outlawed. At 6:52pm, he replied to a tweet he originally posted in 2012, in which he said he would “defend the right of shorts to exist” and that they were “often unreasonably maligned.”