Twitter briefly locked Elon Musk's account but it's back now, thank heavens
Call it a modern tragedy: For a very short period of time, we were apparently deprived of Elon Musk's tweets.
According to the man himself, Twitter thought Musk got hacked and locked his account.
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"Haha," tweeteth Musk casually, like it's no big deal. Well it is a big deal, Elon. It is to us.
Twitter apparently did this because of a tweet earlier today, in which Musk shared an anime image with the text: "Wanna buy some Bitcoin?" Frankly, we can't blame them.
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Everything appears to be restored and back in order. But the event did bring us this short but illuminating conversation between Musk and a fan (or a troll, but who can say these days):
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We've literally got nothing to add here.
Topics Social Media X/Twitter Elon Musk
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