Elon Musk

Elon Musk had a pet project before Twitter: He wanted to make Tesla cars drive themselves.

After taking the helm in October, he diverted dozens of engineers — including on Autopilot and Full Self-Driving — to work there with him, further setting back Tesla, according to former employees and documents reviewed by The Post. [compared](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/02/tesla-phantom-braking/?itid=lk_inline_manual_58) to only 34 in the preceding 22 months. Ross Gerber, a Tesla investor who is running for a seat on the company’s board over concerns about its perceived inaction on Musk’s dueling role as head of Twitter, said Full Self-Driving heralds a bright future for Tesla. The latest example came to light this month as the agency confirmed it was investigating a February fatal crash involving a Tesla and a firetruck. So Tesla engineers built invisible barriers into the software — akin to bumpers in a bowling alley — to help the cars stay on the road, Bernal said. Radar originally played a major role in the design of the Tesla vehicles and software, supplementing the cameras by offering a reality check of what was around, particularly if vision might be obscured. [footage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il4asorQEhU) of the software struggling to navigate San Francisco’s famously winding Lombard Street in a video that garnered tens of thousands of views. While this has the potential to speed the process, it boils down to essentially a trial and error method of training. The cars rely on a combination of hardware and software to do so. Tesla has chosen to effectively allow the software to learn on its own, developing sensibilities akin to a brain via technology dubbed “neural nets” with fewer rules, the former employees said. The result, according to interviews with nearly a dozen former employees and test drivers, safety officials and other experts, was an uptick in crashes, near misses and other embarrassing mistakes by Tesla vehicles suddenly deprived of a critical sensor. Some Tesla engineers were aghast, said former employees with knowledge of his reaction, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.

Twitter CEO and Tesla founder Elon Musk took to the social media platform on Friday to compliment 'Lavender Haze' singer Taylor Swift, praising her 'limbic ...

[Sign up](https://www.independent.co.uk/newsletters?itm_channel=native&itm_campaign=footer&itm_audience=prospecting&itm_content=newsletters) to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter “Limbic resonance is defined as a state of deep emotional and physiological connection between two people. [increases your risk of lung cancer](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/lung-cancer/causes/). [Tesla](https://www.indy100.com/topic/tesla) founder replied with nothing more than the cigarette emoji. [Celebrities](https://www.indy100.com/celebrities/) [Elon Musk](https://www.indy100.com/topic/elon-musk)’s own feed on the social media platform continues to be a wild ride to witness, as the millionaire now appears to be trying his luck at complimenting 'Lavender Haze' singer [Taylor Swift](https://www.indy100.com/topic/taylor-swift).

Musk also announced a series of significant improvements that the popular microblogging platform will undergo in the near future.

Twitter has just recently introduced a new feature that allows iOS users to see the number of times their tweets have been bookmarked by other users. Musk also disclosed that the platform will soon prioritize responses from followers, verified accounts, and unverified accounts in the coming weeks. One of the most notable announcements made by Musk was that Twitter would be open-sourcing all the code used to recommend tweets.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced a slew of improvements that the microblogging platform will undergo. He said that Twitter is growing faster and crossed ...

That’ll also be open source,” he said in a tweet thread. We’re developing a simplified approach to serve more compelling tweets, but it’s still a work in progress. Musk revealed that Twitter would open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31, 2023.

An email inquiry from The Post Sunday morning was immediately responded to with a poop emoji -- and nothing else.

[the Post’s exposé](https://nypost.com/2022/12/19/fbi-reached-out-to-twitter-before-post-broke-hunter-biden-laptop-story/). [ban the accounts](https://nypost.com/2022/12/15/elon-musks-twitter-appears-to-ban-some-journalists/) of some scribes who had reported on how to track the location of his private jet. [presented the tweet ](https://nypost.com/2022/07/14/elon-musk-explains-poop-emoji-tweet-cited-in-twitter-lawsuit/)as part of a lawsuit that argued Musk had “violated his obligations” under the merger deal that was penned when he agreed to take it over.

'Her limbic resonance skill is exceptional,' wrote the 51-year-old Tesla CEO.

The fans I speak to say the concert feels like ‘coming home’.” He replied with a “crying laughing” emoji. Each chapter marks a specific shift in her artistry. Costumes are emblazoned with hand-painted lyrics; faces are bright with glitter; hands are covered in Swift’s lucky number 13. In another tweet, Musk reacted to a post from a user called “Teslaconomics”, which asked whether Musk and Swift would “make a cute couple”. The 51-year-old billionaire responded to the collage with a “cigarette” emoji, seemingly implying that he thought Swift was “smoking”.

If you're a reporter reaching out to Twitter's PR department, you'll now be greeted with an automated response in the form of a poop emoji.

[step down](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/twitter-poll-closes-majority-of-users-vote-for-musk-to-step-down-as-ceo) as the head of the company, a poll that he lost by a landslide. Musk is notoriously hostile to journalists over what he believes is a bias against his companies and completely got rid of Tesla’s press department back in 2020. But when a company lacks a press team, it can allow bad information to flourish in an environment where social media rumors and innuendo are commonplace. Musk is the boss and can obviously run Twitter however he likes. If Twitter had a press team, they could’ve fielded basic questions about the timing of the rollout and how much money creators would’ve received. Twitter CEO Elon Musk proudly announced the change in a tweet on the social media site Sunday morning and I confirmed it was true by seeking comment over email.

The automaker is one of few companies to have achieved a $1 trillion market cap and has set the benchmark for EVs in multiple aspects, causing legacy automakers ...

Other PR snafus may have been avoided altogether too, including Musk tweeting about the war in Ukraine and Keith Olbermann during Tesla’s recently-held investor day, during a time when the CEO’s focus on the automaker has come under scrutiny. [Tesla](http://www.carscoops.com/tag/tesla/) can continue to operate without a Public Relations team. Another interesting development as Tesla’s Twitter account has been stepped up is the reintroduction of short 30-second videos. Tesla’s Twitter account had to issue a clarifying tweet after several news outlets reported mistakenly that the firm’s global headquarters was moving back from Texas, and not just its engineering HQ which is located at Palo Alto, California. The @tesla account has been responsible for several announcements, including a tweet that Musk and Governor Gavin Newsom would be making an address about Tesla’s Californian engineering headquarters. In doing so, it would be fair to say that CEO Elon Musk tore up the rule book, for better or worse.

Former Canadian defence minister Harjit Sajjan was briefed on a much-anticipated U.S. intelligence report 02:13. CTV National News: The search for UFOs in ...

Many companies that emerged to manufacture and procure PPE in the early days of the pandemic have gone bust. The parents of young Ontario hockey player Ben Teague have been searching for answers since he died while at a team retreat in 2019. Fury of the Gods' felt the fury of the marketplace in its theatrical debut this weekend. A voluntary recall has been issued for one sku of Nestle Good Start Soothe Infant Formula due to a potential bacteria contamination. president -- and the world is very different. Canadians' satisfaction with our country continues to decline, especially when it comes to perceptions of our political institutions, according to a new national survey by Nanos Research. Some affectionally call Machala the 'Banana Capital of the World.' This port community on Ecuador's Pacific coast is home to about a quarter million people and normally bustles with commercial activity. [2022 study reported that ](https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/940409)Starlink satellites, which currently make up the largest low-Earth orbit constellation, had created 5,301 streaks across archival images scientists had taken of the night sky. It's both a reference to the trash going uncollected with Paris sanitation workers on strike — and to what many French people think about their leader. The company has denied all allegations and said she was ‘the author of her own misfortune.' Starlink is aiming to hit 10,000 satellites by 2027. Being mistaken for UFOs isn’t the only way they're impacting our view of the night sky.

House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Greg Steube slams Democrats for trying to discredit journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger during the 'Twitter ...

That’ll be open source." [the platform’s](https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/twitter) algorithm as "overly complex" and "not fully understood internally." [Elon Musk](https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/elon-musk) on Friday said he will make tweet recommendation codes open source by the end of March.

The serial entrepreneur believes that the legendary investor chooses his political donations well.

Elon Musk on Sunday announced that journalists that contact Twitter's press department will be greeted with a single poop emoji.

"Just sent a test email to [email protected] and got a message with [emoji] in the subject line. Elon Musk took over Twitter in October last year, following a $44 billion deal. "I hope to see that in every article going forward, 'we reached out to Twitter for comment, who gave the statement '[emoji]'," wrote one user.

Get ready for the next phase of Elon Musk's 'Twitter 2.0' plan, with Musk revealing over the weekend that Twitter Blue subscribers will get priority ranking ...

With that in mind, and as Twitter tries to drive up Twitter Blue subscriptions, it seems within the realm of possibility that it could look to apply more broad-reaching reach restrictions on non-paying accounts in future. But Twitter’s still pushing ahead with its Twitter Blue plan, in the hopes that it can get enough paying subscribers to reduce its reliance on ad revenue, and free it, in Twitter doesn’t appear to be moving in that direction as yet – though Platformer did also note that among the accounts being restricted was the US Department of Health and Human Services. [Platformer](https://www.platformer.news/p/tiktok-nears-the-endgame?r=8of9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) indicated that Twitter has deliberately restricted the reach of accounts of competitor social media apps, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and more. That equates to 0.18% of Twitter’s [253 million total active users](https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/Musk-Outlines-Vision-for-Twitter-at-Morgan-Stanley-Conference/644417/) In general, I don’t know that it will have a massive impact on overall tweet interaction, because Twitter Blue take-up is so low. It’s not there yet, but as Musk says ‘you get what you pay for’. [big declines in overall tweet engagement](https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/Twitter-Works-to-Address-Issues-with-Tweet-Reach/641388/). Insider reports from Twitter HQ then revealed that Twitter’s engineering team was having trouble implementing new code changes, because of the way that the current system has been patched together over time. Which doesn’t sound entirely optimistic – but still, Musk and Co. But it will have some effect in tilting the discussion in the app – while brands may also now have more reason to consider signing up to Twitter Blue, in order to get their replies more exposure and presence. [small percentage of Twitter users produce the majority of tweets](https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/new-study-shows-that-25-of-twitter-users-produce-97-of-all-tweets/610146/), that could have a bigger than expected impact on overall tweet discourse

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is not a fan of press departments. Tesla had one in the past, but the electric vehicle maker abolished it despite complaints from both ...

The rollout of Elon Musk’s automated response system for Twitter press inquiries is definitely not the norm, but it is understandable. Last month alone, Musk noted on Twitter that the platform would start Considering that the typical Elon Musk company usually Numerous users on the social media platform tested and confirmed the update. Following this, reports covering the company would frequently mention that inquiries sent to Twitter were left unanswered. Teslarati did too, and we got the same response.

'Her limbic resonance skill is exceptional,' wrote the 51-year-old Tesla CEO.

The fans I speak to say the concert feels like ‘coming home’.” He replied with a “crying laughing” emoji. Each chapter marks a specific shift in her artistry. Costumes are emblazoned with hand-painted lyrics; faces are bright with glitter; hands are covered in Swift’s lucky number 13. The 51-year-old billionaire responded to the collage with a “cigarette” emoji, seemingly implying that he thought Swift was “smoking”. “Limbic resonance” refers to the notion that a person’s capacity for sharing deep emotional states stems from the brain’s limbic system.

Twitter CEO and Tesla founder Elon Musk took to the social media platform on Friday to compliment 'Lavender Haze' singer Taylor Swift, praising her 'limbic ...

[Sign up](https://www.independent.co.uk/newsletters?itm_channel=native&itm_campaign=footer&itm_audience=prospecting&itm_content=newsletters) to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter “Limbic resonance is defined as a state of deep emotional and physiological connection between two people. [increases your risk of lung cancer](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/lung-cancer/causes/). [Tesla](https://www.indy100.com/topic/tesla) founder replied with nothing more than the cigarette emoji. [Celebrities](https://www.indy100.com/celebrities/) [Elon Musk](https://www.indy100.com/topic/elon-musk)’s own feed on the social media platform continues to be a wild ride to witness, as the millionaire now appears to be trying his luck at complimenting 'Lavender Haze' singer [Taylor Swift](https://www.indy100.com/topic/taylor-swift).

Twitter CEO Elon Musk last week once again signaled that the social media giant would be making its algorithm for recommending tweets open source code.

Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced a new police for journalists trying to get in touch with the social media platform.

[received no response](https://fortune.com/2023/02/21/elon-musk-starlink-global-roaming-service-prices-revealed/). [Sign up today](https://mynewsletters.fortune.com/well-adjusted?utm_source=plea&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=wa). [Musk’s influence](https://www.vox.com/2018/5/24/17389388/elon-musk-twitter-pravda). Responding to the former [PayPal](https://fortune.com/company/paypal-holdings/) boss’s 2018 tweet about the launch of Pravda, one user wrote: “He’s not kidding folks. Journalists have sought comment or background information on topics of huge importance not only to the public but to [Musk’s staff themselves](https://fortune.com/2022/10/27/elon-musk-closes-twitter-acquisition-ceo-planning-to-leave/). This has [apparently included the communications team](https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2022/nov/04/twitter-sued-layoffs-sizewell-nuclear-plant-uk-recession-us-jobs-business-live), alongside teams that cover human rights, machine learning ethics and accessibility.

Fans of Taylor Swift have told Elon Musk to leave the pop star alone after the Twitter CEO sent a series of bizarre tweets about her.

“I don’t know what a limbic resonance skill is but I’m gonna work on mine as soon as I find out,” one person wrote. Another said that it was “interesting” to learn about the notion that Musk tweeted out. He replied with a crying laughing emoji. [March 18, 2023] See you 🔜 Glendale, Erazona☺️ He responded with a cigarette emoji.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has set an automatic poop emoji for all press requests. Musk tweeted: '[email protected] now auto responds with [poop emoji]'.

On Saturday, the billionaire took to Twitter to claim that Donald Trump will win the 2024 presidential election if the former president is indicted An email from MailOnline to Twitter's press office was responded to with the poop emoji On Saturday, the billionaire took to Twitter to claim that An email from MailOnline to Twitter's press office today was responded to with the poop emoji. Musk tweeted about the automatic response to press emails early on Sunday Musk's tweet about the automatic emoji response to press emails early on Sunday morning has already provoked a frustrated response from some Twitter users.

Twitter's communications email went dark after mass layoffs late last year. CEO Elon Musk announced this weekend (and NPR confirmed) that it now responds to ...

A jury [cleared him](https://www.npr.org/2023/02/03/1154420431/elon-musk-tesla-tweets-jury-verdict) of wrongdoing in February. Securities and Exchange Commission [sued Musk for securities fraud](https://www.npr.org/2023/01/17/1149410747/elon-musk-tesla-tweet-trial) over a series of 2018 tweets teasing a Tesla buyout that never happened. [share of controversies](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1387172830094233601?s=20) in the years since. [took to Twitter](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1547335571168604160?s=20) to clarify what he had meant: "Other companies spend money on advertising & manipulating public opinion, Tesla focuses on the product," he wrote. [lengthy thread](https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1526237578843672576?s=20) using "data, facts and context" to detail the company's efforts to combat spam — and Musk responded with a [poop emoji](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526246899606601730?s=20). tabloid Metro, in a comment that's gotten more than 1,600 likes. [responded to tweets](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1387172830094233601?s=20) from journalists asking him to reconsider. [protecting expression](https://www.npr.org/2022/04/25/1094671225/elon-musk-bought-twitter-plans). [criticize him](https://twitter.com/odannyboy/status/1637485891198263296?s=20) and the new policy. [via tweet](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1637420728743088130?s=20), of course — on Sunday. [layoffs and mass resignations](https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134263184/twitter-layoffs-elon-musk) themselves to major changes to the [user experience ](https://www.npr.org/2022/12/12/1139619598/twitter-blue-relaunch)to a series of [controversies involving Musk](https://www.npr.org/2022/12/17/1143796992/twitter-lifts-suspensions-on-several-journalists-amid-rift-between-the-site-and-) and [his announcement](https://www.npr.org/2022/12/20/1144182209/twitter-elon-musk-resigns) that he will eventually step down.

Hundreds of users immediately checked the system and posted screenshots that confirmed that a poop emoji is the only reply that they are receiving.

[Market Coverage](https://www.cnbctv18.com/market/), [Business News](https://www.cnbctv18.com/business/)& get real-time [Stock Market](https://www.cnbctv18.com/market-live/)Updates on CNBC-TV18. The billionaire had completely gotten rid of electric car maker Tesla’s PR and communications department in 2020. After Musk took over the social media platform in October for a $44 billion deal, the company’s press handle has not responded to any messages or questions. Appropriate,” wrote one user. “I hope to see that in every article going forward. Many Twitter users found the entire affair highly amusing.

Most know Musk as the founder of Tesla, cofounder of PayPal, and the CEO of SpaceX. And while he's done quite a bit in his lifetime in the field of science, ...

[ The Boring Company](https://www.boringcompany.com), he's seeking to use underground tunnels to solve traffic congestion by finding another place for cars and freight to go. You boil things down to the first principles or fundamental truths in a particular area, and then you reason up from there." [Musk](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elon-Musk) has a physics degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and he enrolled in a graduate program in physics at Stanford University before dropping out early on. While he might not have a degree in engineering, he oversaw the development of the all-electric Tesla Roadster and Model S sedan. And while he's done quite a bit in his lifetime in the field of science, some may ask the question if he is truly a scientist by trade? "Almost all my time, like 80 percent of it, is spent on engineering and design […] developing next-generation product," he said to Y Combinator founder Sam Altman.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk once again made his disdain for the media clear over the weekend when he announced via tweet that messages to the company's press ...

Casey Newton, the founder of Platformer who authored the piece Musk attempted to discredit, said [Musk’s explanations were the ones that were incorrect](https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1626616839160889345). [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-orders-removal-twitter-suicide-prevention-feature-sources-say-2022-12-23/) article published in December that stated Twitter had taken down a feature that promoted suicide prevention hotlines. [20% off](https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-13-inch-256GB-Storage/dp/B08N5LNQCX?asc_campaign=InlineMobile&asc_refurl=https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-poop-emoji-autoreply-press-email-1850243014&asc_source=&imprToken=12c257d2-8c51-dde2-56e&ots=1&slotNum=0&tag=kinjagizmodopromo-20) [are idiots](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1624438288898744328). Ella Irwin, Twitter’s head of trust and safety, later told the outlet that the feature had been taken down only temporarily while the company “fixed and revamped” it. The move is largely in line with the communications strategy at his other companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, which rarely respond to the press.

All inquiries from members of the press directed to Twitter's official press email now receive the same automatic reply: a poop emoji.

Around this same time, the Tesla and SpaceX chief decided to release the so-called “Twitter Files,” a tranche of internal documents. Last December, the accounts of journalist Aaron Rupar, commentator Keith Olbermann, staffers at CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post and a range of others went dark. [press](https://deadline.com/tag/press/) directed to [Elon Musk](https://deadline.com/tag/elon-musk/), who bought the social media company for $44 billion last year, relayed the update on his own Twitter feed over the weekend.

Elon Musk is a fan of the poop emoji, once memorably tweeting a to then-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal while he was in negotiations to buy the social media ...

By contrast, another user [asked](https://twitter.com/odannyboy/status/1637485891198263296?cxt=HHwWgICx2cCvwrktAAAA), "Are you 12." Musk, who is known to communicate more brusquely and directly than most CEOs, has long had a strained relationship with the media. Now, the Twitter CEO and Tesla founder is conveying a similar message to one of his favorite targets: the media: Emails sent to [email protected] receive a poop emoji as an auto-reply.

Astronomers urge people to stand up to 'big light' industry amid unchecked brightening of night sky.

“An example with distinct and potentially severe social consequences is the detection of near-Earth objects that represent a high risk of colliding with our planet,” they write. On the contrary, we believe that the impacts and risks are too high for this possibility to be ruled out,” they write. [Pollution](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/pollution) Science and Technology Institute in Italy, and co-authors in a comment piece. [According to an accompanying perspective piece](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01904-2), megaconstellations have more than doubled the number of functional satellites in low Earth orbit since early 2019, with a vast number of launches planned in the coming years. [with one team of experts calling for scientists](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01864-z) to stand up to “big light” as they have to other fields, such as big tobacco and big oil, and bring in regulation. [Elon Musk’s Starlink](https://www.starlink.com/) – should be considered, astronomers have said, in an effort to reduce light pollution and preserve our ability to study the skies.

The 33-year-old Grammy winner kicked off her Eras Tour in Glendale, Arizona on Mar. 17 and performed hits during the three-hour-long show. The city in ...

Not everybody understood what he said. The city in preparation for the highly anticipated show even changed its name to The 33-year-old Grammy winner kicked off her Eras Tour in Glendale, Arizona on Mar. Article content “Its like he talks in robot,” wrote another.

Despite his more questionable behaviour on Twitter, I don't believe any private individual is having a greater impact on transitioning to a low emissions ...

I have ordered an electric car and, well, it’s not a Tesla. His initial efforts more than a decade ago to develop an electric car were, to say the least, problematic. For those car companies that don’t transition fast enough, the prescient business lesson of the Nokia phone will be apt. Advertisers have fled the blue bird as Musk’s views have attracted widespread criticism and more than 60 per cent of Twitter’s staff were sacked, leading to a [proliferation of hate speech](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-speech.html). But the company has rapidly gone from an innovative sideshow to sending seismic shockwaves through the car industry. But while his actions at Twitter are attracting the most headlines, it should not diminish the remarkable global revolution Musk has kicked off in the car industry. And despite its early reputation for producing cars with their share of glitches, Tesla has never found itself short of people lining up to buy one. By 2030, when buying a new car you will most likely have more electric than petrol or hybrid engine models to choose from. I do my best, but his purchase of Twitter for an eye-watering $US44 billion has put a sizeable dent in my “Elon is saving the world” mantra. Musk also took a swipe at several US lawmakers who investigated the riots, accusing them of “misleading the public”. Taking charge of a social media platform has forced him to play umpire on a global scale on what is deemed acceptable public discourse. What has become plainly evident is that when the Tesla titan strays from electric cars, rockets and various other engineering challenges, he quickly loses his footing.

Between Twitter, Starlink, SpaceX and Tesla, the CEO's clout — and unilateral decision making — has made him a big headache for Biden.