12 times Elon Musk proved he owned Twitter - before he bought it

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Elon Musk said he was putting a temporary halt on his muchanticipated deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion, sending shares in the social media giant plummeting.

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This is just one of the many examples why Musk's nonexistent Twitter filter is perhaps fitting, as he apparently plans to make the platform a place where almost anything goes.

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Without further ado, here are 12 badass Elon Musk tweets that left a mark.

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Musk's non-rhetorical flamethrower was on display in 2018 when the entrepreneur retweeted a fake news article claiming that he'd bought the popular video game Fortnite and deleted it to save "kids from eternal virginity."

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Musk is infamous for seemingly torpedoing Tesla stock with tweets so outrageous they would probably make Wall Street want to enlist twitter moderator.

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Ethical qualms aside, it's probably safe to say Twitter won't be a "boring company" under the Musk regime.

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Musk was unsurprisingly displeased with President Joe Biden for neglecting to mention Tesla in a recent speech about car manufacturing in the US.

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