Twits melt down

“This is fundamentally cruel,” CNN analyst Juliette Kayyem reacted. “Whatever the masters of the universe are doing with this website, lots and lots of people — not fancy people, just people with kids and houses and vacation plans and who make companies run and rich men richer — will lose their livelihoods.”

“He’s such a piece of trash,” Mississippi Free Press reporter Ashton Pittman tweeted. 

“Tech billionaire with very strong, eccentric and often half-baked views on politics, powered by enormous ego, is live-tweeting his takeover of this platform,” Der Spiegel journalist Mathieu von Rohr wrote.

The nine-second video has already gathered over 16 million views in the matter of hours. 

Musk also changed his Twitter bio to read “Chief Twit” and later tweeted, “Meeting a lot of cool people at Twitter today!”