The eccentric tech billionaire Elon Musk first caused a stir in the sports world with his tweet about the purchase of the English football club Manchester United, then he backtracked. “This is a long-standing hoax on Twitter. I don’t buy sports teams,” tweeted the Tesla boss on Wednesday night.
“Standup is my side hustle.” Previously, the 51-year-old wrote on the social network, where he has more than 103 million followers: “I’m also buying Manchester United. You are welcome.”
Even then it was to be assumed that it was more of one of his often bizarre jokes. Because in the same Twitter thread he had previously shared: “To be clear, I support the left half of the Republican Party and the right half of the Democratic Party!”
Musk’s announcement of the possible purchase of the troubled club already had more than 470,000 likes after six hours. Earlier, some fans of the “Red Devils”, who made a false start in the Premier League as bottom of the table, had asked Musk via Twitter to consider buying the club.
Musk is considered unpredictable. He is currently in a legal battle with Twitter himself because he wants to call off the roughly $44 billion takeover of the short message service.
In addition, the visionary is known for his Twitter antics. In late April, two days after Twitter’s board of directors accepted his unsolicited offer to buy the company, he tweeted: “Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to mix the cocaine back in.”
