Elon Musk Deletes Tesla And SpaceX’s Facebook Pages After People Challenged Him On Twitter

Okay, this is huge. Pretty HUGE, tbh.

You must have already followed the news of Facebook facing a shitstorm over the whole Cambridge Analytica controversy. If that wasn’t enough, a worldwide ‘revolution’ of #DeleteFacebook powered by Co-founder of WhatsApp might have sent Zuckerberg looking for shoulders to cry on.

Today, things have taken an interesting turn, again.

Elon Musk replied to Brain Acton’s tweet sarcastically inquiring ‘What is Facebook?’ 😀

What’s Facebook?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018

Good people on Twitter started to explain

It's a place for dumb people who believes Mark and submit their personal data so that it can be harvested.

— Sathish ? (@SathishCodes) March 23, 2018

To which Elon’s reaction was pure gold

Inconceivable! Who’d say a thing like that!?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018

And the amusing banter went on..

Mark himself did. ?

— Sathish ? (@SathishCodes) March 23, 2018

Elon quipped

Maybe that word doesn’t mean what I think it does

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018

Now here’s the moment it turns interesting. Someone (let’s assume someone who loves to see the world burn) quickly reminded Elon of something important

Delete SpaceX page on Facebook if you're the man?

— ? (@serdarsprofile) March 23, 2018

To which Elon responded

I didn’t realize there was one. Will do.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018

He further claims that he has never seen his own company’s Facebook pages even once

Literally never seen it even once

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018

Just to put things into perspective

to clarify — would you actually instruct the company to remove its Facebook page?

it has more than 2.6 million likes. what are your thoughts on this?https://t.co/ADuPWEjY5i

— j.d. durkin (@jiveDurkey) March 23, 2018

Wait, we’re not there yet

First time I’ve seen either. One on the left looks official. Will be gone soon.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018

Someone pointed out that if SpaceX is getting deleted, why not Tesla too. And Elon took a shade at Facebook with this comment 😛

Definitely. Looks lame anyway.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018

At this moment even I went to check Tesla and SpaceX’s Facebook pages and they were intact.

But Elon wasn’t actually kidding around. He actually deleted both the pages! OMG, that escaleted quickly.

SpaceX down

aaaaaaaaand it's taken down: pic.twitter.com/qe1ay8F6G5

— j.d. durkin (@jiveDurkey) March 23, 2018

Tesla gone

slayyyyyyyy pic.twitter.com/zWhZF8biBU

— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) March 23, 2018

And people still can’t believe what happened. Elon Musk actually deleted the ‘lame’ Facebook Pages of both his companies, SpaceX and Tesla after a tweetstorm.

Why stop at Facebook, someone asked. Even Instagram is owned by Facebook, delete that too.

What about Instagram?

— Martina Pennisi (@martinapennisi) March 23, 2018

To which Elon replied,

Instagram’s probably ok imo, so long as it stays fairly independent. I don’t use FB & never have, so don’t think I’m some kind of martyr or my companies are taking a huge blow. Also, we don’t advertise or pay for endorsements, so … don’t care.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018

Phew! Dear social media team at Tesla, we feel you.