Thread by @williamlegate

Elon Musk just told Tesla investors that his personal Twitter account is "critical" to $TSLA stock price 🤔📉

He's now complaining that Tesla is a much harder business to operate than Twitter (which he claims to be going like "a plane without controls with its engines on fire crashing into the ground" after he assumed leadership)

He says Tesla is going to be 10x harder for him to run than Twitter… not sure that's going to help investor sentiment — given his disaster @ Twitter

He keeps flip flopping, trying to simultaneously claim he's not at Tesla because of the mess that he got Twitter into — while claiming Twitter is an easier problem to solve.

"I've been surprised by (the Fed's) rate increases"

He says Tesla's current collapse is due to the Fed — says his Twitter antics are an insignificant concern to their target customers.

A lifetime Musk super-fan is currently confronting Elon for his remarks about transgender children – confronting him for his horrific attack on lgbtq+ people $tsla. Tells him she sold her model 3.

Elon is not happy.

Elon tells the investor he will not stop attacking people like her transgender daughter.

Elon is back-peddling, says he doesn't necessarily hate transgenders. Says he will not censor his own views on them.

The host is currently trying to get "change the topic of the conversion" — started getting very messy, with several people trying to talk over each other. Elon is now trying to move on from the topic of if he hates trans people

Twitter CEO said "it is very easy to buy Twitter bots… it's very cheap" — weird to admit, when you're basing all your major life decisions on Twitter polls?

Twitter CEO claims there's "a warehouse somewhere with 10,000 phones" — and that there are workers "with 100 phones" who are "trolling" his polls

Tesla CEO: "stormy waters are ahead"

Elon just admited he's had to "intervene" and take over the Autopilot system on his own Tesla on a number of occasions.

That… does not seem safe.

Elon's closing comment was that progress in the past has been slower than the progress in the future.

…um, OK?

Well, it's been nice knowing y'all.

Screenshot this entire thread, so if I get axed — you'll know why. Streisand effect, baby 🤙

If I do get booted, you can reach me on my Insta re: media enquiries, etc (DMs open) – would be awfully interesting for the Free Speech Karen to suppress negative news from the public… about a company he has a vested, fiduciary duty to shareholders
instagram.com/legate

…wait, posting that IS allowed right? I know he censored links to competitors at some point… is that still in effect?

Elon's people apparently have now removed me from Twitter search results. This may be my last tweet. #FreeSpeech

things are… not going well after that investor call he did over Spaces tonight

crit·i·cal
3. (of a situation or problem) having the potential to become disastrous; at a point of crisis.

https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1606058459568279552

It appears $TSLA may have been removed or "de-boosted" from Twitter trends. Had the largest number of engagement of all trends domestically from what I saw, then it… just vanished.

UPDATE: Investors shorting Tesla are rallying on Twitter in support of Elon tweeting. They do not want Elon to stop because his tweets are "critical" to Tesla's brand destruction.

Tesla has relied on a “$0 marketing budget” — which is 100% reliant on the Tesla brand image (and Elon’s Twitter account, which he says is “critical” to Tesla stock).

Destroy that brand, and you might as well destroy all sales forecasts too, while you’re at it.

The media isn’t reporting on the sheer volume of people cancelling their pre-orders. Tesla sales reps have reportedly told angry customers: “we’re getting a lot of that same feedback from a lot of other Tesla owners too”

Twitter does, indeed, appear to be censoring negative $TSLA news from Twitter trends. Unclear if suppressing negative news from shareholders would qualify as a civil or criminal case.

This is also very significant news which broke today, during Elon's Twitter Space. He previously said failure of FSD would completely annihilate the company. He admitted today he's had to "intervene" multiple times – in his own car, alone. It's still vaporware.

At this rate, I believe Twitter could turn Elon into a Millionaire.

Elon's also made this false claim before to pump the price – only to dump the stock for his Twitter vanity purchase he overpaid 3-5x for. No reasonable investor should be re-assured.

https://twitter.com/heydave7/status/1606053928503676930

oh, and here’s another brutal video of another tesla superfan confronting Elon. his response was…

incoherent

Another insane comment Elon made in the Twitter space today: he claims our economy is experiencing DEFLATION. I mean… is he on drugs??????

Unclear whether Musk will approve another $50B bonus to himself, via shareholder dilution, to reclaim richest man title again

I've never seen a destruction of wealth on this scale before… ever. This is 100X worse than SBF/FTX scandal.

https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1605947630634250242

To every journalist contacting me re: Twitter collapse & Twitter grifters being exposed… I have no financial interest in the matter. Just commenting as former Tesla fan. Embarrassed to have supported Elon!

The pre-recorded Space in which this entire thread was predicated on appears to have been completely removed from Twitter. If this is true – how is this not a breach of fiduciary responsibility? Is Elon using Twitter to manipulate $TSLA stock???

Unclear if Twitter has shadow-banned all images of Teslas burning, on fire. It seems they might be having visibility "de-boosting" re: manual content moderation intervention decisions

Tesla stock crashing on open, and you can track its crash, live, directly on Twitter thanks to the free speech Karen’s new, in-app feature $TSLA

BREAKING: Elon may still be dumping $TSLA stock. He claimed he’d stop dumping it (he made this same promise before – and broke it), but he said that he wouldn’t dump it NEXT year. It’s not next year yet. Clever!

Tesla investors are now begging Elon to sell all the rest of his $TSLA stock & to resign from the company, immediately — in an attempt to save the dying brand

Investigative journalists need to dig into this. If true, this is likely illegal & in breach of fiduciary duties. Very similar to SBF/FTX situation.

https://twitter.com/HalloweenBlogs/status/1606091636076732416