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Elon: “Tesla stock is too high imo”
- josephagoss 6y agoThe last few tweets are nuts even for Elon Musk, I think it’s likely his account has been hacked.
- minimaxir 6y agoHis tweets have been a consistent style and sentiment for the past few days.
- josephagoss 6y agoIf it turns out this tweet about Tesla share price is legitimately from Elon Musk, yikes the SEC will eat him up for sure.
- Bang2Bay 6y agohe has done it before s well. SEC did not go behind him then.
- josephagoss 6y agoFrom memory SEC fined Musk and Tesla and Musk tried playing hardball with them and the SEC immediately doubled the fine. They were willing to start an escalation and Musk finally backed down. Sounded to me like he was not in a strong position last time and another blatant violation is unlikely to be an easy walk in the park. The share price has immediately moved, this is just reckless behaviour.
- api 6y agoNah. Rocket man gets higher than Snoop Dogg.
- vincentmarle 6y agoStock is now down 7%
- api 6y agoTwitter exists for the rich and powerful to make complete asses of themselves.
- BitwiseFool 6y agoAnd it's provided me with so much entertainment!
- rvz 6y agoRight. It's time for this Twitter user to log off today.
- fzeroracer 6y agoI'm finding some extreme schadenfreude in this considering in the Tesla Q1 2020 update thread posted just yesterday had people defending Musk's tweets because it didn't affect Tesla's stock and he was still earning them money.
- baron_harkonnen 6y agoThis submission received a fair number of upvotes in the first minutes of submission and yet never reached the front page. It's hard to believe that this isn't interesting to HN so why did it disappear? Is it TSLA fans just flagging this so it doesn't get there? is there some other process that decides posts like this won't get to the front page?
- ainar-g 6y agoI think dang's comments on the previous thread explain it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23022631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23022631
- baron_harkonnen 6y agoThanks, that makes a fair bit of sense and it's nice to see the likely reason more clearly articulated.
- krapp 6y agoIt's possible submissions from Twitter are penalized. If so, I wouldn't be surprised - a site that makes context and nuance all but impossible to convey and that optimizes for emotion and hot takes is probably not a good fit for HN's goals. My personal opinion is that Twitter should be banned as a primary source.
- minimaxir 6y agoHN rules say to post the original source. This is a rare case where the tweet is the original source.
- krapp 6y agoYeah, but it's a terrible source. The mods do sometimes replace original sources when a better one comes along, maybe if the only source for something is a tweet, that's a sign it shouldn't be posted at all.