Tesla CEO Elon Musk once said that he uses Twitter to express his personality, as others do with their hairstyle. In fact, he provides his around 50 million followers there with a colorful mix of memes, politics and business. On Friday, he talked about Twitter once again about Tesla: The company had a chance to become the largest in the world, Musk wrote to a fan. Then he even gave a time frame for it, but he later deleted it.
Tesla boss reacts to fan forecast
Without any special reason, @WholeMarsBlog, one of the beta testers of Tesla’s newest autopilot software, initially stated that this FSD was “the greatest thing of all time”. Nobody understands that, but the importance is enormous. Tesla will be bigger than Apple, he wrote to Musk.
Such forecasts (or the exact opposite) can be read more often on Twitter, but a few hours later the Tesla boss spoke up about this: “I think there is a> 0% probability that Tesla will be the largest company could, ”he replied. That probably related to the market value. At around $ 590 billion after further losses in Tesla shares on Friday, Apple’s (around $ 2 trillion) is currently more than three times as high.
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As the Tesla losses of a good 3 percent on Friday show, the Musk statement did not cause euphoria on the stock market – it was also worded very carefully. However, the Tesla boss was now a little braver, as several Twitter users noticed: “probably within a few months,” he added three minutes after answering @WholeMarsBlog. A little later this message disappeared, according to Twitter deleted by the author.
Musk tweets need to be checked
The reasons for this initially remained open. Interestingly, Tesla was asked by the U.S. Labor Relations Board on Thursday to persuade Musk to delete a Twitter message from May 2018 (and reinstate a sacked unionist). At the time, Musk had suggested joining the union would cost employees their stock options, which the board found illegal. This news was continued on Friday evening found on Twitter. According to an agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2019, Tesla must have its management’s social media contributions legally reviewed, especially those with important information for the stock and the company.
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