That’s respectable,” one person said. “12 words to finish a failed program: Musk has to smile somewhere,” said another, who was having a good time.
Elon Musk, who often makes snap judgments on social media, isn’t sitting back and watching. He tweeted briefly a few hours later: “Thanks for the free exposure, Jimmy.
Good night. The cheerful emoji that went with the words was enough to intensify the verbal sparring between two influential individuals in their respective domains.
While some commentators see it as just a public dispute, others see it as a deeper conflict between Musk’s contemporary digital world and traditional entertainment culture.