Why did Elon Musk make his Twitter Account private? Users bewildered

Twitter supremo Elon Musk continues to surprise millions of Twitter users , be marking his account private. Only those users following Elon Musk can now see his Tweets.

Musk has amassed nearly 128 million followers on the platform, and below message will be displayed to a user who tries to connect with Musk;

 ‘these tweets are protected. Only approved followers can Elon Musk’s Tweet. To request access, click follow'

What prompts Musk to lock his Twitter Account

Musk locked his account not for the sake of privacy, but wanted to test whether the tweets from locked / private accounts had greater reach; Musk's account is expected to be locked for 24 hours.

Step taken by Musk to lock his account was in response to a thread by the account Libs of Tik Tok, which claimed a locked/private accounts tweets have a ‘vast reach’, as compared to a public handle, Musk wrote ‘Something’s wrong’.

Twitter users have given their own reactions and have had this thing to state;

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Users mock Musk for his lack of awareness about his own platform

Users have also mocked Musk for being unaware of the features of his own platform and not having enough engineers to explain it to him

Last week, Elon Musk had tweeted with a laughing emoji that had changed his handle to Mr.Tweet and now he is unable to reverse it.

He wrote “ Changed my name to Mr Tweet, now Twitter won’t let me change it back”.

Musk’s takeover of Twitter has resulted in chaos , particularly with respect to verification process – which awarded recognized handles – a blue tick.

To his surprise – England bowler Tom Curran discovered that his tick has been removed from his account and he took a diatribe at Musk who has made the feature a paid one.

Curran wrote,

“Is that the $7 Elon Musk thing? Haha that’s funny. Still hate twitter. Probs not come on for ages again…. Bye”,

Users in India are also feeling the heat, they now will have to pay over Rs 700 per month for the tick , but have chosen not to pay for it. They will be losing the feature,.

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