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Elon Musk is . . . quiet

Big news from the Wall Street Journal!

But how long has this Twitter holiday been? Inquiring minds want to know and the Journal is here to tell us:

The billionaire chief executive of Tesla Inc. last posted on June 21, marking Thursday as the most extended silence since October 2017. Normally a serial tweeter, he hasn’t gone more than six days without tweeting since January 2018, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of tweet data.

Click the link and you'll get 500 words and a chart about Musk's Twitter habits. American journalism is on the job.

11 thoughts on “Elon Musk is . . . quiet

  1. Martin Stett

    Remember, it's a business publication first and foremost, and Musk's tweets for some of their readers are like living near a volcano.

  2. DFPaul

    Have to assume he’s got a bit of a rebellion on his hands about moving Tesla to Texas. Betcha a lot of highly educated engineers refuse to move themselves and/or their families there.

    1. rick_jones

      The irony being that to secure things like abortion rights et al nationwide it is going to be necessary to “blue” several red/purple states.

      1. MontyTheClipArtMongoose

        Elon will renounce his shift right by retweeting the GIF of David Cross as Tobias Funke in blue bodypaint.

  3. GenXer

    To a younger generation of journalists, Twitter is the world and the world is Twitter. I see lots of news articles that are simply a string of embedded tweets.

    1. MontyTheClipArtMongoose

      But Twitter has been around since the Bush-43 administration. It's very millennial, at best, if not late Gen X (why does no one say Gen Y, anymore?), & those people are damn near forty. Twitter, therefore, us CHEUGY AF.

  4. rick_jones

    Kevin’s criticism seems sour grapes. It is something right up his charting alley. Must is certainly not the POTUS or Russian Premier or even Generalissimo Francisco Franco, but he certainly would be someone for whom lack of activity would be noticed. The question is of course is Elon Musk valiantly hanging on in his fight to remain off-Twitter? …

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