Stephen King trolls Elon Musk again over Twitter’s name change
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when he’s not busy Chat with Ice-T On X (formerly Twitter), when it comes to horror movie recommendations, Stephen King loves nothing more than tormenting Elon Musk.
The horror mogul has previously criticized Musk’s decision to charge people with blue ticks, sarcastically praised Musk’s AI launch, and, of course — reacted to Twitter’s name change. He made his feelings abundantly clear.
And now he’s back for the second round.
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Over the weekend, a post from a Musk parody account asking “Is the name X better than Twitter” went viral.
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Dr. King cited the post and made it clear whose side he was on.
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“Twitter,” King wrote, again constructing his response like a mini-poem. “Twitter, Twitter, Twitter, Twitter, Twitter, Twitter, Twitter, Twitter, Twitter.”
Judging by the responses to the original post, it appears King is not alone.
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To be fair, what people think of the name is the least of Musk’s concerns. A recent study found that anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim hate speech about has decreased to