Elon Musk has further escalated his war of words with Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg by hinting he is a behind parody account calling the Meta boss ‘lizard boy’.
Musk, 52, has been feuding with Zuckerberg after they agreed to take each other on in a cage fight. In what became a viral back-and-forth, Musk tweeted on June 20 bragging that he was ‘up for a cage match if he is’, to which the Meta boss responded on Instagram ‘send me the location’.
In the latest installment of their rivalry, a parody account of Musk on Twitter, which recently went viral for criticising Zuckerberg’s Threads app, dubbed the Meta boss ‘lizard boy’.
The post on July 7 read: ‘I spent $44 billion for this app and now Lizard boy just decided to hit copy and paste. It’s personal now. See you in the cage, Zuck.’
Responded to the tweet, Musk said: ‘So many people think this account is me.’
He accompanied the tweet with a side-eye emoji, prompting speculation that he is behind the proudly anti-Zuckerberg account.
Musk (pictured), 52, and fellow tech billionaires Zuckerberg have seen tensions rise after they agreed to take each other on in a cage fight
Musk has further escalated his war of words with Zuckerberg as he calls the Meta boss ‘lizard boy’
In what became a viral back-and-forth, Musk tweeted on June 20 bragging that he was ‘up for a cage match if he is’, to which Zuckerberg (pictured), 39, responded on Instagram ‘send me the location’
Just this week the Tesla CEO’s official account replied to screenshots of Zuckerberg, 39, laughing at burger chain Wendy’s telling him to go into space to ‘really make Musk mad’ by saying: ‘Zuck is a cuck.’
Zuckerberg broke his decade-long Twitter silence on July 6 by tweeting a Spider-Man meme to make the launch of Threads.
The Twitter-lookalike app, Threads, calls retweets ‘reposts’ and tweets ‘threads.’ It allows users to post up to 500 characters of text and up to five minutes of video.
Musk has also threatened to file a lawsuit over the platform, accusing it of poaching former employees to create a ‘copycat’ app.
Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro wrote in a letter released Thursday: ‘Twitter has serious concerns that Meta Platforms (Meta’) has engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.
‘Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information.’
He also claimed Meta assigned those staffers to create ‘copycat ‘Threads’ with the intent to use Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property in order to further the development of Twitter’s competitor.
The decision to create the rival comes after Musk purchased Twitter for $44billion in October last year.
Musk has since spearheaded a series of controversial moves – including cutting staff and limiting the number of messages people can see a day.
That has caused the value of Twitter to plummet, with Fidelity recently estimating Twitter is worth just one-third of what Musk paid.
This week the Tesla CEO’s official account replied to screenshots of Zuckerberg laughing at burger chain Wendy’s telling him to go into space to ‘really make Musk mad’ by saying: ‘Zuck is a cuck’
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He hit out at Meta’s new platform and claimed it spreads ‘false happiness’ like Instagram – which is also owned by Meta.
Musk responded to news of the potential lawsuit by stating on Twitter that ‘Competition is fine, cheating is not.’
Zuckerberg has yet to respond to the threat of a lawsuit.
Threads has been nicknamed ‘Twitter Killer’ online amid animosity between the rival billionaires who agreed recently to take each other on in a cage fight – with the Colosseum in Rome a potential venue as well as Las Vegas.
Chef Gordon Ramsay, pop star Shakira and Mark Hoyle, better known as the YouTuber LadBaby, have already joined Threads and made their presence on the app known.
Zuckerberg said this week: ‘I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it. Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully we will.’
Twitter has been in a steep decline since the take over by the former world’s richest man – who was keen to take on the project after becoming disillusioned by the site’s perceived biases and content moderation policy.
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Threads has been nicknamed ‘Twitter Killer’ online amid animosity between the rival billionaires who agreed recently to take each other on in a cage fight. Pictured: Musk during training for sumo wrestling
He said he wanted to build a ‘common digital town square’ where all voices could be heard and debated in a healthy way.
Changes to personnel and features, and the release of the ‘Twitter Files’ took the site in a radical new direction within a matter of weeks.
Twitter’s revolution became a bloodbath in the process, cutting staff by 80 percent to hone in on the new direction, and then losing users and advertisers as a lean team struggled to manage disinformation, trolling and impersonation online.
Musk also recently announced limits on the number of Tweets people can see a day at 600. Users who paid $8 for a blue-check mark were able to see more, but still capped at 6,000 views.
Twitter users have proclaimed the site ‘dead’ since the controversial limits.
Musk claimed the restrictions are a temporary measure introduced because ‘we were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users’.
