After Elon Musk shared the main points of his potential in-person combat with Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday, asserting that it could be streamed on his social media website X (previously Twitter), the Meta proprietor took a dig at ‘X’ on his rival website ‘Threads’.
“Zuck v Musk fight will be live-streamed on X,” Musk wrote in a publish on the ‘X’ platform. “All proceeds will go to charity for veterans,” he added.
In response, Zuckerberg shared a screenshot of Musk’s post on ‘Threads’ and remarked “Shouldn’t we use a more reliable platform that can actually raise money for charity?”
Zuckerberg’s scathing dig referred to a series of problems ‘X’ has been facing since Musk took over the platform last year. These included massive layoffs, reinstating previously suspended right-wing accounts, a chaotic verification badge system on the platform among others, which led several advertisers to turn elsewhere.
‘Cage fight’
The conversation started off as a joke in June when the news of Threads’ launch surfaced online. Musk had taken a dig at Zuckerberg’s saying “I’m sure Earth can’t wait to be exclusively under Zuck’s thumb with no other options…”
When a user asked Musk to be careful since Zuckerberg is enthusiastic about Brazilian jiu-jitsu – a form of Mixed Martial Arts; the X owner replied “”I’m up for a cage match if he is lol.”
Zuckerberg’s Meta launched its Twitter-like Threads platform in early July, bringing the 2 billionaires in direct competitors with one another. The two tech giants have clashed through the years on points starting from politics to synthetic intelligence.
Musk purchased the social networking website for $44 billion in October final yr and has launched a sequence of adjustments in a bid to show it “profitable”; nonetheless the launch of Threads has added to its challenges.
The newest change on the platform was its rebranding from Twitter to ‘X’ final month. Musk stated he goals to finally flip it into “the everything app”.
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