Elon Musk’s comment on French backfires but don’t bother complaining to press office

Protests are taking place across France until 6am on Thursday after President Emmanuel Macron pushed through a controversial pension reform without a vote in the lower house, prompting widespread anger.

Elon Musk tweeted: “France seems to love having a good strike/riot from time to time.”

France seems to love having a good strike/riot from time to time

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 18, 2023

He then added: “Retirement age in France is too low. That’s a legit issue.”

Retirement age in France is too low. That’s a legit issue.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 18, 2023

This poll should force his early retirement maybe?

https://twitter.com/MarylinMaeso/status/1637157730996690944

However, it was this comment that brought the house down.

The French History Podcast wrote: “The richest person in the world saying French people don’t work enough is serious Louis XVI vibes.”

The richest person in the world saying French people don't work enough is serious Louis XVI vibes. pic.twitter.com/uAqDnnTp2J

— The French History Podcast 🇲🇫 (@FrenchHist) March 18, 2023

Press complaint

If you want to complain about his comments about the French or about any of the horrific content that floats around on Twitter from millions of other users, you might be disappointed with their response.

Twitter’s press department now auto-responds with the poo emoji, according Elon Musk himself.

[email protected] now auto responds with 💩

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2023

Reactions

1.

$44 billion well spent https://t.co/QDjDR69xwK

— Alex Sherman (@sherman4949) March 19, 2023

2.

This is the definition of “high on your own supply.” https://t.co/3MYGwBnDTm

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) March 19, 2023

3.

https://twitter.com/AlishaGrauso/status/1637652185025777665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1637652185025777665%7Ctwgr%5Eb81fb4518f77520d5604c44c999ac5b2bb3da6ba%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepoke.co.uk%2F2023%2F03%2F21%2Ftwitter-press-email-now-auto-responds-with-poo-emoji%2F

4.

huh, same as general user experience then

— Chris Rickett (@chrisrickett) March 19, 2023

5.

This is actually true. Twitter's press email address now responds with an automated poo emoji. Yet more evidence that Twitter is full of shit bots https://t.co/MK2VAg0RHm pic.twitter.com/mhbgdIlYge

— Marc Owen Jones (@marcowenjones) March 19, 2023

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