It has been almost two months since Musk and Zuckerberg led the "Appointment", which subsequently ignited discussions on the entire Internet.
First, it was agreed to have a "cage fight" in Las Vegas, and then netizens watched the excitement and made a teaser poster, and finally Musk's mother came forward to stop it...
When everyone thought that the fight was over, Musk said again: I want to fight, and I am going to broadcast it live on X.
The whole process will be broadcast live on X, and all proceeds will be donated
Obviously, this fight has entered a fierce stage, and the two big men are gearing up for it.
Earlier, the BBC reported that Zuckerberg had been practicing Brazilian jiu-jitsu for the past 18 months. At the end of July this year, Zuckerberg announced on Instagram that he had been promoted to a blue belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
And Musk once said that he has a move called "Walrus", which can press the opponent to the ground and cannot move.
On August 6, Musk posted on X: "I practice weightlifting every day to prepare for fighting. Since I don't have time to exercise, I take them to work."
When an X user took the opportunity to ask "the meaning of fighting and whether it is for the purpose of motivating myself to exercise," Musk replied: "This is a civilized form of fighting. Men love fighting."
Musk also said: "The Zuckerberg and I fight will be broadcast live on X, and all proceeds will go to veterans charities ."
When the smell of gunpowder was full again, Zuckerberg also "expressed his position" on Threads without showing any weakness.
He said frankly: "I am ready, and my proposed date is set for August 26, but Musk has not confirmed whether this time is feasible."
In addition, Zuckerberg took the opportunity to connotate the move to be broadcast live on X: "Shouldn't we use a more reliable platform to raise funds for charity?"
Years of fighting each other online, the flames of war intensified
In fact, the two bigwigs have been "pinching each other" online for many years.
In 2016, after SpaceX failed to launch a Facebook satellite, Zuckerberg sarcastically said: "I am deeply disappointed to hear that SpaceX's failed launch destroyed our satellite..."
In 2017, the two clashed again over the future of AI.
In 2018, Musk even deleted the official Facebook accounts of SpaceX and Tesla.
In 2021, the two had another quarrel while discussing the concept of the "Metaverse".
At the moment, the most intensified conflict between the two parties is undoubtedly: the presence of Threads .
It’s no secret that since Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, policy shifts, technical issues, and the platform’s stance on harassment and hate speech have displeased many users.
In addition, some analysts and brand agencies said that Musk’s name change will cost Twitter’s brand value 4-20 billion US dollars.
In contrast, Threads, as a social app released by Meta to benchmark X, attracted more than 100 million users in just 4 days after its launch, becoming the fastest app in history to exceed 100 million users, and was even ridiculed by netizens. "Twitter Killer".
To that end, lawyers representing X (Twitter) sent a letter to Meta last month, accusing it of intellectual property theft and threatening to sue Threads. Meta subsequently refuted the allegations.
Netizen: "Is this to push traffic for X?"
There is no doubt that in this "cage fight", the social media influence of the two bigwigs should not be underestimated.
On the one hand, Musk and Zuckerberg, as the super rich, brought their own traffic, drawing attention to the event.
According to the latest data of the Forbes real-time billionaire list, the combined net worth of the two has exceeded 340 billion U.S. dollars, which is called by netizens as the cage fight with the highest "gold content" in history!
On the other hand, there are huge sports users on the X platform.
According to X (Twitter) official data, sports fans account for 42% of its users, higher than any other social platform, which also makes it a gathering place for major sports events in the world. On the X (Twitter) platform, the number of sports topics has grown steadily. In the past two years, sports tweets have increased by 28%, and the number of readings has increased by 29%.
For this reason, their "frame appointment" once again set off heated discussions among netizens.
Some netizens think this is "a long-planned marketing": "For them, they can win more social application market share for themselves"; ; "Live on X, I feel like I'm going to push traffic for X."
Some people joked: "After all, the old horse didn't listen to his mother's advice"; "Sports betting companies are about to hear the news"...
Reference link:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/06/business/elon-musk-vs-mark-zuckerberg-fight/index.html
https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-says-fight-with-zuckerberg-will-be-live-streamed-x-2023-08-06/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2023/08/06/elon-musk-says-fight-with-zuckerberg-will-be-live-streamed-on-x-for-charity/?sh=2cbf2721711c
