“Leave Twitter” began trending with more than 172,000 tweets and counting, as those with active Twitter accounts, and some identifying as employees of the company, threatened to defect if Elon Musk took over.
It should come as no surprise that Elon Musk proposing a hostile takeover of Twitter on Thursday quickly became the talk of Twitter — as well as subreddits like WallStreetBets, and conservative social media platforms Gettr and Truth Social.
Many conservative politicians and pundits, still smarting from former President Donald Trump’s personal account being “permanently suspended” from Twitter last year “due to the risk of further incitement of violence” following the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, have accused the platform of liberal bias and silencing free speech.
Other conservative critics suggested that Musk buying Twitter could lead to Trump rejoining the platform — although the former president said Thursday that “Twitter’s become very boring,” so he didn’t intend to come back even if Musk would have him back on. Others crowed that Musk buying Twitter would bring free speech “back” to the platform.
Others called on Musk to take the $41 billion he’d be using to buy Twitter to benefit the world in other ways — such as Musk’s recent claim that he would be willing to pay to end world hunger, which didn’t really pan out. And the big $41 billion figure being thrown around also stoked the wealth inequality debate.
While many users on WallStreetBets — a subreddit that popularized meme stocks Game Stop GME, +1.28% and Bed Bath and Beyond BBBY, -2.84% — were quick to joke about the purchase potential, there was some serious thought on what he was trying to do.
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