The Tesla entrepreneur returned to the social media site he's attempting to purchase for $44 billion on Friday evening and shared a photo with the pope.
Musk is the sixth Twitter user to exceed 100 million followers, as he now has 100,059,886 followers.
Elon Musk Returned to Twitter After Several Days of Inactivity
After nine days of being silent, Elon Musk resumed his Twitter activity.
The Tesla billionaire returned to the social media platform he is trying to acquire for $44 billion on Friday evening, posting a memorial to a YouTuber who passed away from cancer, a photo of his four boys seeing Pope Francis and a memory from his 40th birthday weekend.
Musk gave a tribute via tweet to the late Minecraft YouTuber Technoblade with 12 billion followers, who recently died at the age of 23. He said that the YouTuber's death made him understand that cancer is an idiotic piece of actual rubbish and death.
Additionally, he encourages individuals to live their best lives with others who know, so they may not regret not doing anything with them if they pass away the next day.
The photo of the wealthiest man in the world standing next to the pope was posted on the social media network he is attempting to acquire for $44 billion, along with the remark, 'Honored to meet @pontifex yesterday.'
Musk's four teenage sons are also seen, but his 18-year-old transgender daughter, who tried to alter her name and cut off contact with him on June 20, is not. In all, Musk is the father of eight kids.
It was unclear at first why Musk met with the pope or where they went.
Musk said last month that there were still a few issues with the purchase of Twitter that needed to be worked out, including the number of spam users on the platform and the completion of the debt side of the transaction.
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More Than 100 Million People Follow Elon Musk on Twitter Now
Elon Musk has reached the milestone of having 100 million Twitter followers, making him the sixth user to do so. Musk reached the milestone, according to SocialBlade, on June 26 and 27, garnering more than 150,000 followers in that period. Musk now has 100,059,886 followers as of this writing.
The achievement of the milestone is intriguing for a few reasons. The first is the obvious one: Musk is presently in the process of purchasing Twitter for $44 billion, which might one day place him in the rare position of being the only CEO of a significant social media network who really knows how to use their network.
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, posts news releases mostly on his Facebook page, while Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, has an equally cloying presence on the website he oversees.
It's very striking how Musk uses Twitter differently from the other five accounts that have surpassed the 100 million follower threshold. While Rihanna, Katy Perry, and Cristiano Ronaldo have the types of Twitter presences that could only emerge from the collective brain of a highly trained comms team, Barack Obama's account changes often. Still, they are a bit as thoughtful and presidential as expected.
The second curious aspect of Musk surpassing 100 million followers is how many are fake. Twitter estimates that fewer than 5% of its accounts are bots, but Musk thinks it may be significantly more. In line with this issue, he has threatened to cancel his acquisition of Twitter if it doesn't improve its forecasts.
There are still questions over whether Musk is really bothered by Twitter spam bots or if he's just using them as an excuse to get a better deal on purchasing Twitter. Regardless, it seems that in response to Musk's assertions, Twitter has provided him with a firehose of its data.
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