Elon Musk makes first public appearance at Met Gala since buying Twitter

Elon Musk has made his first public appearance since buying Twitter for $61 billion, telling a Met Gala red carpet reporter what he plans to do with the platform.

Richest person in the world Elon Musk wants Twitter to be “entertaining and funny,” the SpaceX boss told a reporter at the Met Gala today.

Musk has stepped out for the first time since sealing his $A61.4 billion ($US44 billion) deal to buy the social media platform last week, bringing his mother, model Maye Musk, 74, to the event.

Vogue red carpet reporter La La Anthony, was quick to ask Musk, 50, about his plans for Twitter.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and brought his mother, supermodel Maye Musk to the Met Gala. Picture: Angela Weiss / AFP.

It’s the billionaire’s first event since acquiring Twitter for an eye-watering sum. Picture: Angela Weiss / AFP.

Strike a pose, Elon. Picture: AFP.

“My goal, assuming everything gets done, is to make Twitter as inclusive as possible and to have as broad a swathe of people on Twitter as possible,” he said.

“And that it is entertaining and funny and they have as much fun as possible.”

Asked about his dapper Met Gala look, Musk said he was “just following the dress code,” Gilded Glamour.

His mother wore a crimson velvet Dior dress, with Chopard jewellery.

Elon Musk’s mum is a style icon. Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images.

Musk’s appearance at the event comes just a week after his offer to purchase Twitter was accepted to the shock of platform users.

Leaked internal communications from Twitter reveal employees at the social media platform are overtaken by despair and anger about Elon Musk’s month-long effort to acquire the company.

In a statement last Tuesday, Musk said he wants “to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans”, adding that the platform has “tremendous potential”.