Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO, one of the most followed tech CEOs on Twitter, has a range of tweets. He has a huge fan following on Twitter (even beyond), where he manages to stir with his tweets from bizarre and downright absurd to eccentric and funny.
Here are the top 15 best and worst tweets by him.
1. Called Jeff Bezos a “copycat”
.@JeffBezos copy 🐈
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2019
Elon Musk tagged Jeff Bezos in his tweet, when the Amazon CEO revealed that they were planning to launch 3000 satellites for internet and called him a “copycat”.
2. Rumors of Elon Musk being an alien
And, no, I’m not an alien…but I used to be one
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 12, 2016
He had to answer those silly questions like “are you an alien?”. He tweeted saying that he was not an alien, but he used to be one (the sarcasm is real).
3. A $20 million tweet
Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 7, 2018
He tweeted about taking Tesla public. But it didn’t go down well with the US SEC. Musk had to face a court battle, where he was asked to be careful with his tweets regarding Tesla and had to pay a fine of $20 million.
4. Stuck in traffic tweet
Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 17, 2016
He tweeted about the idea of building a hyperloop, which allegedly helps reduce travel time. All this was done when he was fed-up of the traffic.
5. The nuke mars tweet
Nuke Mars!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 16, 2019
He tweeted Nuke Mars, which was propagated by him in the past, but this time it was about t-shirts.
6. “Weird”- Confirmed!
Don’t want to blow your mind, but I’m pretty weird. It’s time the world knew.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2018
The answer to someone asking him, “Are you weird?”, was not very surprising. As people who knew would definitely have known his answer would be “Yes”, without any doubt.
7. A controversial tweet
Musk ended up creating a bit of controversy by calling someone a pedophile, when a group of kids from Thailand were trapped in a cave.
8. The three magical words
I love Twitter
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 21, 2017
This was a tweet where he expressed his love for Twitter with his three magical words.
9. Technically alcoholic tweet
Technically, alcohol is a solution
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 21, 2019
One tweet about alcohol, where he said that alcohol was a solution, ‘technically’.
10. The denial
The rumor that I’m building a spaceship to get back to my home planet Mars is totally untrue
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 12, 2015
The tweet where he denied either of the rumors of him building a spaceship to get back to his home planet Mars, and him being from Mars, of-course.
11. Secret of late-night tweets
A little red wine, vintage record, some Ambien … and magic!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 7, 2017
Musk is known for his late-night tweets. Someone asked what made him do so. His reply was, a little red wine, vintage record and some ambien… and magic.
12. Anti-selfie guy
Self-hatred
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2017
Once musk tweeted about why he didn’t like to take selfies, in one word- “Self-hatred”.
13. A bizarre tweet
A ceiling is simply a floor from below
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 29, 2017
Once he made a bizarre tweet about ceiling being the floor and floor being the ceiling, which no one understood.
14. Rating Journalists
Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda …
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018
This tweet was related to creating a site to rank the credibility of journalists over any article.
15. The lash out
Got called randomly by Kanye West today and received a download of his thoughts, ranging from shoes to Moses. He was polite, but opaque.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 21, 2011
Once he tweeted about how media houses claim to present the truth, but actually publish only the sugarcoated lies.
