Elon Musk Continues To Amuse Himself On Twitter, Sharing Song, Duck Emoji (billboard.com)

Yesterday Billboard magazine reported that Elon Musk had dropped a rap song on SoundCloud -- an auto-tuned song called "RIP Harambe." Posted under the handle Emo G Records, the two-minute track pays tribute to the Cincinnati Zoo gorilla who was killed in 2016 after a 3-year-old climbed into its living area. It's unclear if Musk stumbled upon the track, which has his name on it, or if he released the track himself...

"RIP Harambe" had more than 200,000 plays as of Sunday afternoon.
Some Twitter users left bemused replies, like "Dude, sober up by Thursday's contempt hearing." But the song appears to be part of a longer series of tweets. An anonymous reader writes: On Friday Musk had shared a blank tweet containing nothing but an emoji of a duck with his 25.5 million followers. It drew over 24,000 re-tweets, and 4,300 comments -- far more than the Harambe song (which drew only 14,000 retweets and 1,600 comments.) "Duck emoji FTW," Musk tweeted triumphantly on Sunday, following up on his earlier observation that "Duck emoji defeats Emo G Records. Crushing victory."
In its comments there was also a joke about X.com (the original online banking site Musk launched in 1999, which was eventually merged into PayPal). In 2017 Musk repurchased the domain because "it has great sentimental value" -- but replaced it with an entirely blank page with one lowercase x. In response to the duck emoji, someone tweeted that next Musk needed to update X.com.

Musk promptly replied by tweeting the URL x.com/x -- which (due to the site's error-handling) pulls up a web page with a single lowercase y.

Comments

Not sure what this really means

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

This quarter 19Q1 does not seem to be as critical as the 18Q2 where the cash position turned very precarious. This quarter had unexpectedly long delays in getting euro transition and certiticates, Some China deliveries. Guidance changed from "profitable in all following quarters" (18Q4) to "small loss" (Jan 2019) to "definite loss" (Feb 2019). Share prices are reacting to that.

SEC contempt case is not strong. "Must pre screen all tweets" was the original demand, it was redlined and negotiated and taken out. So it is clear Tesla never agreed to pre screen ALL tweets. SEC seems to be under the impression there should be a standing panel with some board members and appointees to screen the tweets. Tesla seems to be thinking, if Elon agrees not to treat anything material, not tweet anything during trading hours, there is no need to pre screen, just a post screen to issue clarification before trading resumes.

The particular tweet seems to be very immaterial, not much to hang its coat on. If this is the most material breach they have found, SEC has nothing. Looks like it is just a pretext to show that there is no standing panel, no real process to pre screen tweets. Court can rule for either party, but not likely to punish Tesla much. Elon has not made a market moving tweet since funding secured. So SEC got what it wanted.

Re:Not sure what this really means

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

The free market disagrees with you. It caused absolutely no movement in the stock, either in the after market fueled by rumors alone, or the next day. Anyway, these numbers were hinted in many statements before. The dispute is 500K in 2019 or 500 K/yr rate in 2019. The tweet went through and a clarification was also issued. It is not material.