Proprietor of the X social media platform (previously often called Twitter), CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and some different progressive tech corporations, Elon Musk, has reached a brand new vital milestone on the X app not too long ago — he’s now essentially the most adopted particular person on it.

Musk’s follower depend surpasses 159 million

Now, Musk has surpassed the 159 million threshold of followers on this app. Musk is the world’s wealthiest man with a web price of $259 billion as of the beginning of September this yr. Founder and former CEO of Amazon e-commerce large Jeff Bezos comes second after Musk with $161 billion of web price.

In addition to, as was talked about earlier than, Elon Musk not solely owns the X app however such corporations as The Boring Firm, Neuralink, in addition to SpaceX and Tesla, so plenty of numerous individuals are interested by following Musk on X.

On prime of that, he’s a vocal Dogecoin supporter and used to shift the worth of this unique meme coin along with his tweets (as X posts have been referred to up to now). So a big a part of his followers are DOGE followers. Only for comparability, the quantity of people that comply with the official account of DOGE on X stands at 3.8 million. Co-founder of DOGE Billy Markus, often called Shibetoshi Nakamoto on the X app, has 2.1 million followers.

SEC suing Musk for Twitter, Musk’s enhancements on platform

Presently, Elon Musk is engaged combating again the SEC regulator that has sued him for not testifying concerning the Twitter buy in September. Additionally, the regulatory company is looking for out if there had been any securities fraud on Twitter as Elon Musk started to purchase shares of the corporate final yr.

After he acquired Twitter and closed the deal in October final yr, Musk has built-in a number of essential updates on it, eliminating Twitter as a microblogging platform and rebranding it into “X.” Now, customers can publish lengthy reads, share reside movies and even do recreation streaming. Simply the opposite day, Musk streamed enjoying Diablo 3 on his X account.

In addition to, Musk launched the Subscriptions characteristic, which permits content material makers to obtain month-to-month charges from their subscribers. All of the funds go to content material authors with out X taking its share till a person payout quantity exceeds $100,000.