Elon Musk Passes Barack Obama To Become Most Followed Account On Twitter

Elon Musk Surpasses Barack Obama To Become The Most Followed Account On Twitter

Just in time, Elon Musk has surpassed Barack Obama to become the most followed account on Twitter.

Musk now sits at 133.05 million followers, passing former President Barack Obama, who has about 133.04 million followers.

Elon Reeve Musk, born June 28, 1971, is a business magnate and investor. He is the founder, CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner and CEO of Twitter, Inc.; founder of the Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the philanthropic Musk Foundation.

 

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With an estimated net worth of around $192 billion as of March 27, 2023, primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla and SpaceX, Musk is the second-wealthiest person in the world, according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes’s real-time billionaires list.

In 2022, his acquisition of Twitter for $44 billion was completed.

Musk has made controversial statements on politics and technology, particularly on Twitter, and is a polarizing figure. He has been criticized for making unscientific and misleading statements, including spreading COVID-19 misinformation.

In 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued Musk for falsely tweeting that he had secured funding for a private takeover of Tesla. Musk stepped down as chairman of Tesla and paid a $20 million fine as part of a settlement agreement with the SEC.