Billionaire entrepreneur and Twitter proprietor Elon Musk is selecting a fight with Mark Zuckerberg — and the Facebook chief is up for it.
Musk (on Twitter, naturally) started the spat Wednesday by laughing off Zuckerberg’s Meta trying to launch its personal “sanely run” micro-blogging competitor to Twitter.
“I’m certain Earth can’t wait to be completely underneath Zuck’s thumb with no different choices,” Musk said. “At least it is going to be ‘sane.’”
The South-African born entrepreneur then added: “I’m up for a cage match if he’s lol.”
Zuckerberg responded on Instagram (which is owned by Meta) with a screenshot of Musk’s tweet, captioned: “Send Me Location.”
“If that is for actual, I’ll do it 🔥🔥,” Musk tweeted in response to a screen-cap of the Zuckerberg Instagram Story. Later, he tweeted “Vegas Octagon,” referring to a venue used for Ultimate Fighting Championship fights.
If the 2 billionaires do find yourself going mano a mano within the Octagon, officiating the match could possibly be a job for the EU’s Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton, who is because of meet each Musk and Zuckerberg throughout a visit to the U.S. this week — and wants Big Tech to name him “The Enforcer.“
Asked if the trade was critical, a Meta spokesperson told the Verge: “The story speaks for itself.”
Musk, whose unpredictable administration model since he bought Twitter for $44 billion final October has included 1000’s of layoffs, is infamous for blundering on the platform he owns.
“Have I shot myself within the foot with tweets a number of instances? Yes,” Musk said in an interview with the BBC in April. “I feel I shouldn’t tweet after 3 a.m.”
Indeed, Zuckerberg might need a bonus if the billionaire bickering really turns bodily: Meta’s CEO took up Brazilian jiu-jitsu throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, winning his first native event in California final month.
