Elon Musk now has 100 million followers on Twitter, the social media platform that he could be about to buy.
Despite the large figure, Musk still ranks only sixth among the most-followed people on Twitter. Here’s the top five:– Rihanna: 106.9 millionThe CEO of Tesla and SpaceX joined Twitter in 2009, three years after the platform launched. In that time, he’s posted around 18,500 tweets across a huge range of subjects. And some of those tweets have gotten him into trouble with the authorities.
It’s not clear if his silence has anything to do with his recent bid to acquire the microblogging service for more than $44 billion. The deal, which Musk proposed in April but which isn’t yet signed and sealed, hit a rough patch earlier this month when a lawyer acting for Musk said that unless Twitter handed over data on the number of fake and spam accounts on the platform, the billionaire entrepreneur could drop his bid.
So that's like 50 million actual people and if he were going to buy he'd have already done so. Deal's off. Go home.