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Elon Musk Mocks Liberals In Brutal Tweet

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Elon Musk has become one of the biggest enemies and he appears to be reveling in the controversy.

In a tweet on Saturday he mocked liberals, talking about “owning” them as he is working on his purchase of Twitter.

“Whoever thought owning the libs would be cheap never tried to acquire a social media company!” he said in one tweet.

“At least, that’s what the lib hivemind thinks haha,” he said in another.

And those who are not his fans were none too happy with his tweets.

“I have no issue with you buying Twitter and doing whatever you want with it. But ‘owning the libs’ and ‘lib hivemind’ are displays of hostility toward your customers. Again, do what you want with your company, but making enemies of your customers seems like bad business,” one Twitter user said.

“You are getting more offensive to the people who have supported you most,” another said.

“So much you could do with all those billions of dollars to make this a better world. But, you go on cracking jokes that 44 billion is a drop in the bucket. Hey, how about using your wealth to purchase baby formula,” another said.

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“We’re the majority. You should begin to worry about your so-called ‘businesses,'” another said.

It came two days after he sent shockwaves with a new announcement on his deal to purchase the social media platform Twitter.

Musk tweeted early on Friday morning that the deal was “on hold” in response to a story that showed Twitter claimed spam and bot accounts comprise less than 5 percent of its users.

“Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,” he said.

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Hours later he said, “Still committed to acquisition.”

“Twitter Inc estimated in a filing on Monday that false or spam accounts represented fewer than 5% of its monetizable daily active users during the first quarter,” the Reuters story said.

“The social media company had 229 million users who were served advertising in the first quarter,” it said.

“The disclosure came days after Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk, who has inked a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion, tweeted that one of his priorities would be to remove “’spam bots’ from the platform,” it said.

The news comes after it was reported this week that Twitter Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal is freezing hiring and taking other cost-cutting measures now that Elon Musk’s bid to purchase the company has been accepted.

The company will not make any new hires and could possibly rescind offers it has already made a company memo said, Bloomberg News reported.

Some exceptions will be made for business-critical roles, as determined by Twitter leadership. The company is also pulling back on costs such as travel, consulting, and marketing, according to the memo.

Agrawal said global events, including the war in Ukraine and the supply chain crunch, have hurt Twitter’s business results and may continue to do so. The company isn’t planning company-wide job cuts, “but leaders will continue making changes to their organizations to improve efficiencies as needed,” Agrawal wrote. 

“At the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, the decision was made to invest aggressively to deliver big growth in audience and revenue, and as a company, we did not hit intermediate milestones that enable confidence in these goals,” the CEO said. “In order to responsibly manage the organization as we sharpen our roadmaps and our work, we need to continue to be intentional about our teams, hiring, and costs.”

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And two of the company’s top executives, head of consumer product Kayvon Beykpour, and Bruce Falck, in charge of revenue, are both exiting the company.

Former President Donald Trump has weighed in on what he believes is the future of billionaire Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase.

He made the comments during a rally Saturday in Austin where he said his Truth Social app “blows Twitter away” and “everybody loves it — especially the engagement.”

“I don’t believe he’s going to buy Twitter because you have so many fake accounts, the bots, all of the different things,” the former president said of Musk. “I think it’s going to be very interesting.”

This week Musk explained his thinking after he sent a tweet that said his deal to purchase Twitter was “on hold.”

Musk tweeted early on Friday morning that the deal was “on hold” in response to a story that showed Twitter claimed spam and bot accounts comprise less than 5 percent of its users.

“Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,” he said.

Hours later he said, “Still committed to acquisition.”

“Twitter Inc estimated in a filing on Monday that false or spam accounts represented fewer than 5% of its monetizable daily active users during the first quarter,” the Reuters story said.

“The social media company had 229 million users who were served advertising in the first quarter,” it said.

“The disclosure came days after Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk, who has inked a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion, tweeted that one of his priorities would be to remove ’spam bots’ from the platform,” it said.

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Photo of Carmine Sabia Carmine SabiaMay 15, 2022