- Elon Musk took a number of jabs at Mark Zuckerberg and Meta whereas on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
- “Yeah it is eerily quiet. I imply, Zuck himself does not submit,” Musk mentioned of Twitter rival Threads.
- Zuckerberg normally posts on Threads each one to 2 weeks, a far cry from Musk’s every day posts on X.
Elon Musk, the proprietor of X — the platform beforehand generally known as Twitter — took swipes at competitor Meta, saying Mark Zuckerberg will not be energetic on Twitter rival Threads.
The billionaire supplied his opinions of Meta and its platforms throughout the newest episode of “The Joe Rogan Expertise” podcast, which aired on Tuesday. In addition to trashing Meta, Musk touched on all kinds of matters, starting from Tesla’s Cybertruck to the courtroom sketches of disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.
“Yeah, it is eerily quiet,” Musk mentioned after host Joe Rogan referred to as Threads a “ghost city” regardless of its record-breaking launch.
“I imply, Zuck himself does not submit,” Musk continued. “You bought to make use of your personal product.”
Musk’s criticisms of Zuckerberg are odd, contemplating that the latter does use Threads very often.
Zuckerberg — who has 3.5 million followers on the platform to this point and normally posts on Threads each one to 2 weeks — final posted about the platform rolling out polls and GIF attachments 5 days in the past, per Insider’s evaluation of his Threads account. He additionally interacts with different customers on the platform by replying to their posts.
That’s, after all, a far cry from Musk’s exercise on his personal platform, X. Musk posts a number of occasions every day and can be a prolific replier to different X customers.
In the course of the dialog, Musk additionally mocked Meta-owned Instagram after Rogan talked about the platform’s integration with Threads.
“There was a time once I was posting on Instagram, however I discovered myself doing selfies. And I am like, ‘What the hell is flawed with me?’ Why am I posting selfies to get likes? That is loopy,” Musk mentioned whereas laughing.
This is not the primary time Musk has expressed scorn at Zuckerberg’s try to develop a Twitter rival. The mercurial billionaire has gone from difficult Zuckerberg to a cage struggle to dunking on Instagram on Threads’ launch day.
Meta launched Threads in July following rumors that they had been creating a Twitter competitor. The text-based app was initially warmly acquired, with over ten million individuals signing up inside the first seven hours of its launch.
Whereas the platform wasn’t capable of maintain its early momentum, Zuckerberg has been sanguine about Threads’ progress prospects.
“There’s nonetheless loads of fundamental performance to construct, and as soon as we really feel like we’re in an excellent place on that, then I am extremely assured that we’re gonna be capable of pour sufficient gasoline on this to assist it develop,” Zuckerberg instructed analysts throughout Meta’s second-quarter earnings convention name in July.
Representatives for Musk and Zuckerberg didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from Insider despatched exterior common enterprise hours.
