Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk’s private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year. “ElonJet has arrived to Threads!” read Sweeney’s first post on Thursday from the account handle @elonmusksjet, which had over 21,000 followers as of Saturday morning. ElonJet
WASHINGTON — Search for the word “climate” on Twitter and the first automatic recommendation isn’t “climate crisis” or “climate jobs” or even “climate change” but instead “climate scam.” Clicking on the recommendation yields dozens of posts denying the reality of climate change and making misleading claims about efforts to mitigate it. Such misinformation has flourished
Tesla’s share price dropped 4% ahead of Tuesday’s opening bell after it missed Wall Street’s delivery targets. James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images Tesla fell 4% ahead of Tuesday’s opening bell after it missed Wall Street’s delivery estimates. It logged just over 405,000 deliveries in the fourth quarter, falling short of analysts’ 430,000 forecast. The EV
Tesla shares jumped in anticipation of Elon Musk stepping back from Twitter., the social media company that has distracted him from running the electric-car maker for months. Tesla’s stock rose as much as 5.3% before the start of regular trading Monday. The shares have plunged 58% since Musk disclosed in early April that he’d taken
SEC filings on Wednesday revealed Elon Musk sold $3.6 billion more in Tesla stock. Analysts speculate the proceeds will help cover Twitter’s deficits, raising concerns. Dan Ives stated that Musk is ‘using Tesla as his own ATM machine’ to fund Twitter. The impact of Elon Musk buying Twitter on Tesla is getting scarier for investors.
European Union lawmakers have wasted no time warning Twitter-owner Elon Musk over “arbitrary suspension of journalists” following reports late yesterday that a number of reporters who had recently written about Musk had had their Twitter accounts suspended without warning. Věra Jourová, an EU vice-president for values and transparency, took to Twitter this morning to tweet the
Elon Musk. Susan Walsh/AP Elon Musk has sold about $3.6 billion of Tesla stock this week, SEC filings show. The Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter CEO sold around 22 million shares in three days. Musk is dealing with mounting interest payments at Twitter, and a gloomy economic outlook. Elon Musk has cashed in another $3.6 billion
Elon Musk’s bankers are considering providing the billionaire with new margin loans backed by Tesla Inc. stock to replace some of the high-interest debt he layered on Twitter Inc., according to people with knowledge of the matter. The margin loans are one of several options the Morgan Stanley-led bank group and Musk’s advisers have discussed
Two years ago this month, Tesla fans learned the electric-car maker’s shares were joining the S&P 500 Index, and Elon Musk was turning retail investors into Teslanaires. Lately, some of the same supporters are griping and engaging in gallows humor about the U-turn the stock has done since then. It more than tripled within a year, only
Some of the most amusing vanity plates are the ones that get rejected. While these are not normally shared with the public, a Twitter bot gained access to the California DMV’s records from 2015 to 2016 and began posting vanity plate applications on an hourly basis. Spotted by The Drive, the account is called “ca_dmv_bot”
