Chief Twit just might be worthy of that title!
In his recent book, Battle for the Bird, he claims that Elon Musk began buying Twitter after rejecting former CEO Parag Agrawal’s demands to shut down @ElonJet.
The account, run by Jack Sweeney, uses public information to track Mr. Musk’s private jet, causing distress to the father of an 11-year-old child.
Sweeney runs a number of accounts that go after celebrities, including Taylor Swift, who has threatened to sue college students.
Bloomberg reporter Kurt Wagner alleges in an excerpt from his book that Musk “unsuccessfully petitioned Agrawal to delete the Twitter account that was tracking his private plane.” Posted in Bloomberg News.
Musk soon began buying Twitter stock, which led to a conversation with founder Jack Dorsey.
He initially sought to become a member of the board of directors before agreeing to acquire the social media platform outright.
In October 2022, he paid a staggering $44 billion for his loss-making business.
After taking over and giving him the title of “Chief Twit,” he quickly ousted Mr. Agrawal along with most other executives and more than half of the company’s employees.
But more importantly, Musk finally shut down @ElonJet along with several journalists.
Sweeney started posting again about 24 hours after Musk threatened legal action.
The college student laughed it off, calling it Musk’s “bluff.”
“I think this is a bluff, but we’ll have to wait and see,” Sweeney told the Post at the time.
“Hard to say.”
Just like his relaxed attitude towards billionaire threats, he’s not afraid of Swift being a billionaire either.
“Her team thinks they can control the world,” he told the Washington Post.
Swift’s representatives have accused him of endangering her safety by posting her whereabouts.
The pop star has been stalked several times in the past, most recently by a New York City man who was arrested outside her Tribeca apartment last month and found to be mentally “unfit” to stand trial. did.
“While we cannot comment on an ongoing police investigation, we can confirm that the timing of the stalking suggests a connection,” Swift’s spokesperson Tree Payne told the Post.
Swift has since sold one of his private jets.
