Unwilling to lose face to his challengers on Twitter Inc(NYSE:TWTR), the billionaire Elon Musk joined the anti-Facebook movement Friday and deleted Tesla Inc (Nasdaq:TSLA) and Space X’s pages from the social media network.
Musk’s abrupt moves to pull the Facebook Inc.(Nasdaq:FB) pages of both the electric car company and the space exploration group he co-founded came after he entered a Twitter contest in which he answered a popular tweet calling on people to delete their Facebook pages. “What’s Facebook?” Musk asked as a way of retort.
In the wake of his quick response, another Twitter follower dared him to pull SpaceX’s Facebook page and Musk replied, “I didn’t realise there was one. Will do.”
Then, the debate persisted with yet another Twitter follower pointing out Tesla’s Facebook page. “[T]his should be deleted too right?” “Definitely.,” wrote back Musk. “Looks lame anyway.”
Facebook has come under attack amid the outcry over the news that the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica improperly culled and used the data of some 50mln Facebook users.
Shares in Facebook closed down another 3.3% to US$159.39 Friday, amid the hammering on Wall Street.