Elon Musk has joked he's going to start posting nudes on X. Picture: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Elon Musk has joked he's going to start posting nudes on X.
The 52-year-old business magnate bought the social media platform - which was formerly known as Twitter - last year in a deal thought to be worth $44-billion and has now teased followers that he could be posting NSFW content on the microblogging site.
Alongside a meme of a cat sitting on a stove, he joked: "I'm running out of memes. Nudes starting tomorrow."
In terms of reactions, the post received more than half a million 'likes', 32,000 reposts as well as over 4,000 bookmarks and was quoted by other users of the site thousands of times, many of whom questioned "Is he joking?".
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2023
One fan was quick to label the Tesla founder Musk - who is one of the richest men in the world with a net worth of $225-billion - as the "meme king" and decreed "Long live Elon", alongside their own meme of the businessman sitting on a throne in a hooded garment.
One fan joked: "So that’s why you renamed the platform to X" before the Elon Musk Parody account - which itself has garnered almost one million followers for its satirical take on the CEO - shared that Musk was "excited to share [his] first X-Video too!" following the teaser.
Musk previously explained that he rebranded Twitter - which was started up in 2006 and now has over 540 million users worldwide - to X simply because he "liked the letter" and his meme came just days after it was revealed that he is putting almost 600 lots of old memorabilia based around the now-retired bird logo as part of an auction titled Twitter Rebranding: Online Auction Featuring Memorabilia, Art, Office Assets More!, which is set to begin on September 12.