Elon Musk, the world’s richest particular person, purchased Twitter for a whopping $44 billion on Monday. (File)
After shaking up one of many world’s most outstanding social media platforms and snagging Twitter for $44 billion in a weird hostile takeover on Monday, billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk has introduced a brand new goal: Coca-Cola.
In yet one more eccentric tweet, newfound Twitter proprietor Musk in the present day mentioned that he deliberate to purchase Coca-Cola subsequent “to place the cocaine again in”.
Subsequent I am shopping for Coca-Cola to place the cocaine again in
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022
Quickly after, Musk posted a screenshot of a earlier tweet the place he mentioned “Now I will purchase McDonald’s and repair all of the ice cream machines,” and jokingly responded to himself with “Pay attention I am unable to do miracles okay”.
Pay attention, I am unable to do miracles okay pic.twitter.com/z7dvLMUXy8
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022
Recognized for his outlandish statements, Musk’s popularity on Twitter precedes him — far earlier than he purchased the corporate. Musk has, up to now, polled Twitter customers, asking if he ought to promote 10% of his Tesla inventory with the intention to pay for unrealized capital beneficial properties, following which he has truly bought off practically $7 billion in Tesla shares when over 57% of ballot individuals voted in favour of his suggestion.
Within the weeks main as much as his Twitter takeover, when Musk was solely set to affix the board and nothing else, the Tesla founder tweeted a sequence of concepts that he believed might enhance the platform, with some showing critical — like the potential for introducing an edit button — whereas others appeared wholly weird, corresponding to turning Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters right into a homeless shelter.
His most up-to-date Coca-Cola tweet — presumably in jest although not wholly discernable, given his historical past of appearing on his whimsical social media statements — is a nod to the veteran beverage firm’s vibrant historical past with cocaine. Coca Cola’s eponymous trademark comfortable drink is called for its two main elements: coca leaves and kola nuts. Whereas kola nuts are a supply of caffeine, coca leaves are the bottom from which the psychoactive drug cocaine is extracted.
Coca-Cola at one level used coca leaves, with cocaine current in them, when the ingredient was nonetheless thought of medicinal within the nineteenth century. Nonetheless, because the drug turned stigmatised and Prohibition hit the US, cocaine was faraway from their secret method and as a substitute changed with decocainised coca leaves.
