ALL THESE ELON MUSK BOYS!
On October 27, 2022, South African-born billionaire, tech enthusiast and businessman, Elon Musk finalized his takeover of social media giant, Twitter at a reported US$44 billion purchase from the Jack Dorsey’s administration.
Shortly after this, many feared if things will go from bad to worse or improvement, sensing that Elon was going to be brutal with users like many other billionaires whose sole aim is to amass profit. Well, like they say; time is the only true revealer.
Then came 1st of July 2023, Twitter users woke up to a "rate limit exceeded" ushering in the new month. Well, it came with little or no surprise as the new CEO, Elon Musk has been experimenting since his takeover. Most glaring is his policies and strategies to ensure a large population of the 450 million monthly active users subscribe for the "Twitter for Blue" verified badge, at a discount rate of $8 monthly. To be fair to Musk, this has been largely successful, but what was his motive behind the "rate limit exceeded" and how did it pan out for him?
As seen in the image below, Elon Musk tweeted;
While it may be true to some extent that Musk wants to protect Twitter users from "Data scrapping" as can be deduced from the thread below.
It did not take away the fact from his intention of trying to make Twitter as profitable as it can get, since he can't find a way to recover his money. As a matter of fact, this move began to push users into considering another App and Musk long-time tech rival, Mark Zuckerberg seized this opportunity to introduce an alternative for disgruntled users.
In his post on Threads, Mark Zuckerberg stylishly threw jabs at Musk saying;
Like they say, when two elephants fight, it is the ground that suffers. In the midst of all this, a certain continent instead of seeking inward alternatives are moving from Truth Social, to Bluesky, Threads and back to Twitter.
In the words of the Marvel super villain, Thanos;
“you could not live with your own failure, where did that bring you? Back to me!”
It is even more embarrassing that the closest the most populous black nation on earth can match up to developing something as big as Twitter is to scream at the top of Afrobeats charts where we vibe to the new rave of Nigeria’s new school act, Shallipopi’s "All these Elon Musk Boys, para dey body!"
