Right now, more than 22 million Twitter users follow President Biden’s official @POTUS account on the service. That might sound impressive — until you stop to consider the newly released findings of a Twitter spam audit which found that almost half of the president’s Twitter followers seem to be fake. The software firm SparkToro quantified …
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been toying around with the idea of buying Twitter for years. On Monday, he followed through. Musk is buying Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash in a transaction valued at around $44 billion. Some people are excited about the prospect of the world’s richest man owning and …
Some of you seriously need to put down Twitter and go pet a dog or something. The reaction way too many of you had to the Elon Musk Twitter takeover announced on Monday — which will mean the company soon losing the oversight of public markets — is to correspondingly lose your minds. For my …
Twitter is reportedly planning to accept Elon Musk’s offer of $43 billion to buy the company as early as Monday. The Wall Street Journal reported that the two sides “worked through the night” in order to finalize the details. Musk initially made his bid on April 14th, calling it his “best and final offer” at …
Netflix’s new Elon Musk-focused documentary Return to Space is attracting mixed reviews, some of which lambast the film as fawning portraiture. But given the fact that the subject is Musk, that’s not necessarily a big surprise. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX (and newly minted Twitter board member) is nothing if not a perfectly modern …
There’s no denying that the meteoric rise of Tesla transformed Elon Musk into a mainstream celebrity. While most tech CEOs are rarely covered outside of traditional tech circles, Musk has become something of a pop culture icon. He’s been lampooned on shows like Family Guy and even hosted Saturday Night Live last year. Of course, …
Tesla made waves about a year ago when it started selling electric cars for bitcoin. Separately, Elon Musk was promoting dogecoin, a meme cryptocurrency that saw a meteoric rise as a result. Since then, the Tesla exec confirmed that he was looking into making dogecoin a viable payment option for online goods. That was back …
Elon Musk: Space enthusiast, technoking of Tesla, enthusiastic tweeter, meme connoisseur — and, now, the richest man on the planet, as the Tesla stock price also just hit an all-time high. Plotted on a graph, the share price of his electric carmaker Tesla since early last year has produced the kind of image that pretty …
Dogecoin is one of the cryptocurrency highlights of the year, but not because the digital token is actually useful. The meme coin reached new highs earlier this year, with Elon Musk partially responsible for the price increase. The currency rose more than 22,500% in the first five months of the year, from well under a …
The SpaceX landing this weekend that brought the four-person civilian crew of the company’s Inspiration4 flight safely back to Earth was particularly exciting for my hometown of Memphis. We actually had a couple of reasons to be keenly interested here in the success of this mission. For one thing, the flight — which marked the …
