Elon Musk Takes Break From Twitter – The Wall Street Journal

BERLIN—Musk out—for now, anyway.

Elon Musk, the Tesla Inc. chief executive and space travel-hyperloop-deep tunnel mining entrepreneur, is taking a hiatus from Twitter , after recent tweets helped drive rallies in GameStop Corp. and bitcoin.

The message “Off Twitter for a while” appeared on his personal Twitter account before 4 a.m. Eastern time Tuesday, generating tens of thousands of “likes” within a few hours.

Mr. Musk, whose account has nearly 45 million followers, jumped into the GameStop fray recently with a barrage of tweets such as “Gamestonk!!”, a play on the videogame retailer’s name, that took jabs at short sellers.

Investors shorting Tesla stock have long been a favorite target of Mr. Musk’s social media ire.