Whatever happened to nice, geeky Elon Musk?


A screen grab taken from a video posted on the Twitter account belonging to Musk (yes, it has a blue tick) showing the day he walked into Twitter HQ in San Fancisco carrying a sink in October, before his contentious takeover of the company was finalised. — Twitter/AFP

Elon Musk bought Twitter for US$44bil (RM204bil) recently.

And he did it in typical outlandish Musk style, carrying a kitchen sink into the Twitter offices – to “let that sink in”? I guess. It was definitely Musk declaring victory in purchasing the social media network, and sure enough he tweeted, “The bird is freed”.

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