Susie O’Brien: Twitter will only get ‘wilder’ with chief Twit Elon Musk in charge

He sends poo emojis to people he hates and thinks video games are real, so can Elon Musk now improve Twitter?

Elon Musk bought his favourite social media platform for $44b. Picture: Frederic J. Brown.

Years ago, Victor Kiam liked his Remington shaver so much he bought the company.

Now one of Twitter’s most prolific and controversial users, Elon Musk, has bought his favourite social media platform.

That’s right. The man who admits to sending his most abusive and crazed tweets from the toilet is now the owner of the company.

Musk revolutionised the electric-car industry and privatised space.

Now he’s is taking on a social media platform favoured by bullies and braggards and

promising to make it even more loose.

God help us all.

Chief Twit Elon Musk brought a sink into Twitter HQ because he wanted his new role to “sink in”. Picture: AFP.

This week, Musk walked into the company’s headquarters carrying a porcelain sink, because he wanted his new role to “sink in”.

Musk says the new Twitter will be “warm and wonderful”.

“The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilisation to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence,” he said in a statement to advertisers.

But within hours of taking over, the head of Twitter’s legal policy, trust, and safety unit was fired (what does that tell you?) and the chief executive and chief financial officer had been escorted out the door.

Musk has been tweeting photos from the Twitter HQ coffee bar, which is no doubt now full of very nervous baristas.

Musk is all for free speech on the platform, but he did pay $44bn for the company, which makes it very expensive speech indeed.

I’ve long thought I needed saving from Twitter, which I’ve always found to be a bastion of bullying and an echo chamber for self-important politicians and journalists.

(FILES) In this file photo AFP)

But I’m starting to think we need saving from Musk as well, since he now calls himself “Chief Twit” and regularly sends poo emojis to famous people he disagrees with.

He may be the richest man but he’s also one of the weirdest.

He wants people to have lots of sex to help populate the planet and is doing his own bit by fathering 10 children, including one called X Æ A-XII and another called Exa Dark Sideræl.

His father killed three home invaders and fathered a child with his stepdaughter, which he said happened “in the heat of the moment”.

To celebrate his new purchase, Musk spent this week tweeting things like “i know nothing is forever” and “the bird is freed”.

So, what can we expect from a man who managed to sell $2m of a perfume called Burnt Hair, which he called “the essence of repugnant desire”. The man who celebrated Tesla’s success by releasing a Tesla brand of red satin shorts that sold out in hours?

And the man who raised money for his tunnelling firm called the Boring Company by selling $500 flame throwers?

Musk has moved to reassure shareholders the platform won’t end up a “a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences!”

The fear is that doctored news, fake tweets and bullying will proliferate under the Chief Twit who’s known for doctoring news, sending fake tweets and bullying others.

It’s very likely that under Musk, Twitter will hit a new low.

In recent years in tweets, Musk has played down the severity of Covid-19, compared Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Hitler, and joked about nuking the planet Mars. He also once made a joke reference to Tesla shares and copped a $40m fine – which he says was “worth it”.

Elon Musk copped a $40m fine after he made a joke reference about Tesla shares — which he says was “worth it”.

A few weeks ago, Musk trolled Bill Gates by comparing him to a pregnant man.

“In case u need to lose a boner fast” the caption on the Gates tweet said.

He also told US senator Bernie Sanders “I keep forgetting you’re still alive” and falsely called a British diver who rescued the Thai cave kids a “pedo guy” because the diver disagreed with his plan to send in a submarine.

This is the level of debate we can expect from the new boss of Twitter who thinks video games are real, believes he used to be an alien and wants to colonise Mars.

Musk is also not known for his political nous. He once tweeted a solution to bring about Ukraine-Russia peace that involved Ukraine handing over occupied territory to the Russians. Nailed It!

It’s no wonder Musk has been called everything from an “absurdist in chief” to a “brilliant jerk” and a “spoilt brat in a diaper”.

He’s now the chief brat in charge of a hugely influential media company with more than 330 million regular users.

There is no doubt that Twitter will be looser and wilder under Musk, who is anti-union, does not believe in whistleblowers and fires people who disagree with him.

What a pity he didn’t buy a shaver company instead.