Elon Musk generates more online buzz than Rihanna, Britney Spears: report
Elon Musk’s bid to mount a hostile takeover of Twitter helps his Q ranking — or reputation — because the world’s richest man is producing extra on-line curiosity than pop stars Rihanna and Britney Spears, in line with a research.
Musk is the tech mogul who has drawn extra web buzz than any of his mutli-billionaire friends in Silicon Valley.
Based on the web monitoring firm Taboola, Musk has had extra mentions on-line than Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner mixed over the previous 90 days.
Throughout the course of the final three months, Musk has generated 23 million web page views alone, the agency says.
Prior to now month-and-a-half, he has generated a 32% enhance in readership — beating out Spears and Rihanna.
The 2 pop stars have just lately made information by saying their pregnancies, however that hasn’t stopped Musk from surpassing them in on-line clicks.
Rihanna additionally joined Musk on the Forbes checklist of billionaires for 2022 — because of her line of style and designer merchandise.
“Regardless of his controversies…one factor Elon continues to point out us about management is the way to construct private model consciousness, particularly as he continues to efficiently dominate the information cycle,” in line with the research by Taboola.
Musk has been embracing his movie star standing lately. Final yr, he hosted Saturday Night time Dwell — although the evaluations have been lower than stellar.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has additionally generated tabloid headlines with his high-profile romances, together with these with Canadian pop singer Grimes, actress Amber Heard, and fellow thespian Talulah Riley.
Musk is aware of his bid to purchase Twitter gained’t be simple. The corporate introduced on Friday that it was deploying its “poison tablet” technique whereby it’s going to provide its shareholders the possibility to purchase extra inventory at a reduced fee.
