Former senior Trump economic adviser Steve Moore shares his thoughts on Twitter and other social media outlets banning President Trump.
Billionaire Elon Musk announced in a tweet on Tuesday that he will be taking some time off from the social media platform.
“Outside of Twitter,” he wrote.
GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO by clicking here
The tweet received more than 357,000 likes and 17,000 retweets by 2:30 p.m. ET.
This is not the first time the founder of Tesla and SpaceX has told followers he would disconnect from Twitter.
In a now-removed tweet from 2019, Musk said he would leave – a threat he had earlier that year – to return just three days later.
Last year in June he said he would walk away – the tweet exactly the same message – but only reported again days later.
Musk joined the social audio app Clubhouse on Monday with great fanfare.
Twitter got the 49-year-old into trouble earlier, which led to an SEC investigation, $ 40 million fines and a defamation against British caver Vernon Unsworth, whom he called a ‘pedo-man’.
Musk’s tweets also had an impact on the stock market, pushing Gamestop shares up 157% on January 27th. tweet “Gamestonk,” and shares of online market Etsy rose 3.5% on January 26 thereafter tweet “I quite like Etsy.” He also helped bitcoin to as much as 15% on Friday after adding ‘#bitcoin’ to his Twitter bio.
Musk also used the social media platform to announce the launch of several other projects, including the construction of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin.
Monday, Musk tweeted that the initial human trials at his neurotechnology company, Neuralink, could begin later this year.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT FOX BUSINESS