Musk changes the Twitter sign's profane language
April 11, 2023Tweet
Elon Musk has jokingly rebranded his company “titter” and himself as “Harry Bolz,” in his latest potty-mouthed prank since his takeover of the social media platform. A photo posted on Twitter last week showed that someone had papered over the ‘w’ on the sign outside the company’s San Francisco headquarters. Musk confirmed on Sunday that he had ordered the letter to be painted over, changing the sign to read “Titter.” On Monday, Musk changed his Twitter user name to “Harry Bolz,” and within minutes of the name change, someone had created a “Harry Bolz” cryptocurrency. Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion last October and immediately set about rolling back some of the platform’s more odious speech restrictions while cutting its workforce by three quarters in a bid to right its finances. His penchant for pranks is apparently turning off advertisers, however, as some of America’s top marketing executives are nervous about appearing beside “Harry Bolz” at a trade conference in Miami later this month. McDonald’s chief marketing officer Tariq Hassan accused Musk