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Elon Musk, the CEO and founder of Tesla has been often called a genius. This marks the first time, however, that the CEO has been called an“evil genius”after his acquisition of Twitter. Following the takeover of Twitter by the SpaceX CEO, the billionaire has found himself in many controversies.

From workplace ethics to a change in the dieting system of the employees, Elon Musk is almost on the verge of shutting down Twitter.
How Elon Musk’s Twitter Shutdown Ruse Was Pure Genius
Although there has been no confirmed news, it was reported that Twitter will be facing outages. With the people not ready for Twitter to die, the social media platform is at an all-time high. With the multitude of controversies involved, Elon Musk was called an evil genius for the masterful ruse that he pulled off.
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The activity of Twitter is at an all-time high now following the takeover by the CEO of Tesla. After the whopping $44 billion deal, Elon Musk seems to enjoy controversies since he got into several. The news that Twitter was going to shut down made the platform active once again. After some time, the people theorized that this might all be just a ruse by Musk for increased activity!
The people took to Twitter and called out Elon Musk for any news on whether their favorite platform was indeed shutting down or not. Most people…were not so subtle.

Elon Musk says that Twitter has reached an all-time high in usage following speculation of the platform shutting down.pic.twitter.com/EEqCcyUsT5
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave)August 04, 2025

DID I LIEhttps://t.co/XfohZVLy3Q
— ۟ (@ijbolilly)July 26, 2025
so they just wanted clicks and we all out here looking like clowns making tumblr accounts… elon musk i am in your walls

— Britt ~ fan acc (@taysrep89)July 24, 2025
Congratulations shitlon. The usage is high because people think the app is about to spontaneously combustGood job, geniuspic.twitter.com/GNhEe4AtBu
— ☽karl☾ (@selunescorpio)August 10, 2025
What if Elon Musk IS an evil genius?!What if he’s just making it LOOK like he’s trashing this site so we all think it’s gonna die & we stay glued to it permanently as we wait for it to crash…If only the genius hadn’t scared off all the advertisers first…
— Alex (@qverti2024)July 17, 2025
this is a setup me thinks hmm 🤔
— fazpo🦭 (@fazpo)July 03, 2025
Although the news hasn’t been confirmed or denied by any officials, the closing down of Twitter could be a real thing as far as the people are concerned. Elon Musk has been having a bit of a crisis as several Twitter employees quit their job or were removed from the company. The CEO also allegedly fired some of his staff for talking back to him about incorrect data that he stated.
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After a tweet by the CEO that stated Twitter’s slowness, he allegedly fired an employee who provedElon Muskwrong. Following changes in the work hours of the employees, it is reported that multiple people have quit the company to be off on their own. It was also stated that while Elon Musk was giving a speech, many of his employees simply walked out of the room! The people started a trend on Twitter titled #RIPTwitter.
Although it is yet unconfirmed what Twitter’s history has seen, it seems that Elon Musk simply doesn’t care or is trying to create a more efficient system starting from scratch. Musk had also been linked to the spamming of the N-word on Twitter that the people tried out after a policy change of the Twitter bots.
Source:Twitter
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.