Tesla CEO Elon Musk abruptly revealed that
he is closing the popular Twitter account that
has repeatedly landed him in legal trouble,
but then proceeded to keep it open long after
announcing he had deleted it.
The mixed messaging began to unfold last
Sunday when Musk changed his Twitter handle
to DaddyDotCom in apparent homage to
Father’s Day. Then he signaled in a tweet that
he was scrapping the account. But 17 hours
later, the account remained open under its old
“elonmusk” handle with 27 million followers.
Tesla didn’t immediately respond to a request for
comment and Musk hadn’t explained his earlier
tweets on Twitter as of Monday afternoon.
Musk has used his Twitter account to pull pranks
and make baffling changes in the past. In
February, for instance, he suddenly changed his
handle to “elontusk.” When Musk was later asked
during a conference call with reporters why
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