Elon Musk's Digs At Twitter, Web3 and NFTs, On Twitter; Before Stake Disclosure

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Elon Musk takes a dig at Twitter, Web3 and NFTs, on Twitter

In the run-up to Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk's public disclosure of a $3 billion stake in Twitter, the billionaire had criticized the microblogging site for failing to adhere to free speech principles and said he was contemplating building a new social media platform.

The world's richest person in the past months has said he is a free speech absolutist, while being vocal against Web3, a term for a utopian version of the internet that is decentralized and whose commercial backbone is the non-fungible tokens (NFT).

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and Mr Musk, though active proponents of cryptocurrencies, share skepticism around the metaverse, NFTs and Web3, what some deem to be the evolution of the internet.

From ridiculing Twitter's new CEO to calling NFT profile pictures "annoying", here's a list of Musk's tweets and comments on Twitter, Web3, NFTs and free speech.

Date, Tweet:

March 15, 2021: Mr Musk tweeted, "I'm selling this song about NFTs as an 2021 NFT." The tweet included a song with the lyrics - "NFT for your vanity. Computers never sleep. It's verified. It's guaranteed." The next day, he tweeted: "Actually, doesn't feel quite right selling this. Will pass."

December 1: Mr Musk posted a meme comparing new Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal 2021 with Joseph Stalin

December 2: "Web3 sounds like bs”, said Musk, responding to a thread 2021 by OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman

December 21: Mr Musk mocked the Web3 concept, in a tweet, he said, "Has 2021 anyone seen web3? I can't find it."

January 21, 2022: In a Twitter thread calling the NFT profile picture 2022 feature annoying, Mr Musk said, "Twitter is spending engineering resources on this bs while crypto scammers are