The blowup between the president of the United States and the world’s richest man has played out on social media in real time, the latest, perhaps ultimate example of how X has become Elon Musk’s personal platform,

At its core, the Republican “big, beautiful bill” is more than just an extension of tax breaks approved during President Donald Trump’s first term at the White House. The package is an attempt by Republicans to undo, little by little, the signature domestic achievements of the past two Democratic presidents.

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Austin Carr writes that President Donald Trump’s public feud with Elon Musk last week provided a brief reminder of the way Twitter used to be a hub for shared cultural moments.

The tech billionaire and the U.S. president insulted each other on their respective social media platforms in June 2025.

At a total cost of roughly $44 billion USD ($68 billion AUD approx), Tesla CEO Elon Musk acquired Twitter. What ensued in the following days was borderline anarchy — including mass lay-offs for half the company’s staff.

For almost a year, Elon Musk marshaled the full force of X, his $45 billion social media platform, to boost Donald Trump’s political fortunes and second presidency. On Thursday, as the two men publicly fought in a flurry of furious online posts, Musk revealed X to be a double-edged sword.

On June 5, she went on X/Twitter, publicly calling out the father of her child and the public breakdown of the relationship between him and Trump via a Tweet at the president.

Elon Musk's X is launching XChat in beta with encryption, vanishing messages, and file sharing.

According to the website Downdetector, Elon Musk 's X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, experienced worldwide outages on Friday afternoon. At 4:19 p.m. ET, Downdetector, an online platform that tracks and reports real-time outages and service disruptions for websites, apps and online services, reported more than 35,000 X outages.

Since Trump's second term started Jan. 20, 2025, Elon Musk has visited his home and private club, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, a number of times

Elon Musk took had to correct his own AI chatbot after it incorrectly claimed that he deleted a post he never posted, in which he mocked Stephen Miller.