Why Is Elon Musk Calling Out Justin Bieber?

Elon Musk is not happy with certain celebrities.

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He called out Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber by name.

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On Saturday, he retweeted a list by the World of Statistics.

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It contained the top 10 most followed Twitter account.

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Justin Bieber was the second and Taylor Swift was the sixth.

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Barack Obama leads the list with 131.4M followers.

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“Most of these ‘top’ accounts tweet rarely and post very little content. Is Twitter dying?” Musk asked.

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“For example, @taylorswift13 hasn’t posted anything in 3 months,” he commented.

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He later added, “And @justinbieber only posted once this entire year.”

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