Elon Musk is increasingly influential in the world after buying Twitter. The Blue Bird was used to test the public's reaction by joking about buying Coca Cola.
Yes, that's the latest sensation made by the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. He created a new stir by throwing posts on Twitter.
"Next, I bought Coca Cola to put the cocaine back in it," Elon said in a tweet, Thursday (28/4/2022).
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Coca in English is slang for cocaine. Of course this is a joke. But still, the reaction of netizens in the world was immediately excited.
His tweet got 2.4 million likes, 393 thousand retweets and 108.6 thousand quote tweets. Netizens reply to his tweets even more wildly.
They expect Elon Musk to buy TikTok, Amazon or McDonalds. There are even netizens who ask Elo to buy other countries and pay off their foreign debts.
Here are some of the reactions of netizens on Twitter:
"Buy Tiktok and delete it," said @iihtishamm.
"I saw this one and I was like, can this guy come and buy Nigeria & set us free from the current entrapment. Why add to the world's problem when you can reduce it?" ask @luwehn from Nigeria
"Can you just buy Facebook and delete it?!" said @ppathhole.
"Can you buy the MOON for me Elon...?? EARTH has lots of WARS going on actually...🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️," asked @sumrkhan1.
Meanwhile, Elon is still a trending topic on Twitter both in Indonesia and globally. There have been 1.45 million tweets about Elon Musk to date.
Previously, the action of Elon Musk buying Twitter for USD 44 billion became the talk of its users around the world. Some like, don't like, or are even invited to joke.
One of the issues discussed by netizens is the attitude of Elon Musk who wants to make Twitter a platform that supports free speech. The problem is, what freedom does Elon offer? Many fear that it will lead to chaos.