Elon Musk Twitter Account Goes Private

February 01, 2023 Story - Divya Sinha

Twitter head Elon Musk in his tweet informed his followers about making his Twitter account private.

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He mentioned that he will make it private until tomorrow morning.

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He detailed the reason saying that it is to test whether people see his private tweets more than public ones.

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As per the previous report, Twitter initiated the groundwork to introduce payment tools for the microblogging site.

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Musk has reportedly applied for a regulatory license to initiate payments across the platform and this could include Bitcoin and crypto.

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