New Delhi: Twitter CEO Elon Musk has yet again shown he can run Twitter however he likes, and his latest move is to poop on journalists.
Musk announced Sunday that any scribe who contacts the tech giant’s press department will be greeted with a single poop emoji.
press@twitter.com now auto responds with 💩
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2023
Giving a sneak peek of the new automatic reply system, Musk tweeted: “press@twitter.com now auto responds with (emoji).”
Many Twitter users took to the comments section to confirm the new reply system, with many posting screenshots of their email responses.
“Verified. Just sent a test email to press@twitter.com and got a message with (emoji) in the subject line. Marketing experts will write about this in years to come lol. #disruptivemarketing,” wrote one user.
While another commented: “I hope to see that in every article going forward ‘we reached out to twitter for comment, who gave the statement (poop emoji)’.”
Before Musk took over, reporters could usually expect email responses to their questions. Since late October, following a $44 billion deal between Twitter and Musk, the social media platform’s press team stopped replying to emails, reports Forbes. Musk had bought the microblogging website under the promise of promoting free speech.
However, following the acquisition of the company, the billionaire fired the entire communications department in 2020.
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