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Elon has no idea how to run a social media company. At this point he's just trying random shit hoping it will work. Get the platform operating successfully again and then worry about branding...
I honestly think that he believes himself to be some sort of super genius that only has good ideas, just cause he wrote some software and sold it for alot of money when he was younger.
More importantly: he was born rich
The guy actually wrote software? Like he coded it?
He wrote something called zip2 and sold it. Then he wrote get this... x.com, which became PayPal.
Edit, because I didn't really answer your question: yes he did code it, as far as anyone seems to know.
Assuming "hoping it works" is really part of his plan for the platform.
gossip that Elon has no idea about running anything was circulating for a long time but since Tesla/SpaceX were not social media it was easier to manage the PR to make Musk seem like "tech and business genius, also twitter troll" regardless of what was going on behind the scenes. On Twitter every single decision hits millions of people and businesses within an hour and managing that is impossible for any PR department so we get to see the man as who he really is.