{"id":3035,"date":"2023-06-23T15:31:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T10:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2023-06-23T15:31:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T10:01:58","slug":"musk-vs-zuck-let-the-games-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/?p=3035","title":{"rendered":"Musk vs Zuck: Let the games begin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In school, a common quip heard among boys on the playground was \u201ctu mujhe baahar mil<\/span> (meet me outside)\u201d which was followed by \u201cdekh loonga tujhe <\/span>(will settle your score)\u201d. These were at their best hollow, empty threats. And even at their worst, it was followed by a meek fight where some senior (some \u201cBobby compro\u201d type) would intervene and settle it.
A similar scenario is being played out but \u2014 not between silly schoolboys \u2014 between two billionaires or the ultimate \u201ctech bros\u201d, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.
How did it all start? <\/span>
Musk, in response to a tweet about Meta starting a Twitter rival, said \u201cI\u2019m sure Earth can\u2019t wait to be exclusively under Zuck\u2019s thumb with no other options. At least it will be \u201csane\u201d. Was worried there for a moment.\u201d Someone in an off-hand tweet replied to Musk and said he should be careful as \u201cZuck\u201d knows jiu-jitsu. Musk LOLed and said \u201cI am up for a cage fight he is\u201d.
Now, Zuck who is generally not too combative \u2014 perhaps he needs a visit to the Indian capital and learns to use the quintessential Delhi flex \u201ctu janta nahi mein kaun hoon<\/span>\u201d \u2014 surprisingly responded. In one of his Instagram Stories, “Send Me Location,\u201d was his response over a \u201ccage match\u201d tweet.
Over to Musk was Zuck\u2019s message. This was like music to Musk\u2019s ears. Musk being Musk, the twit-in-chief, the master at dropping tweets that generate reams of copies on the internet, promptly gave the location \u2014 Vegas octagon and dropped a few hilarious tweets, \u201cI have this great move that I call ‘The Walrus’, where I just lie on top of my opponent & do nothing.\u201d Musk is a social media legend at the LOLs, lulz and social media banter. Money can buy a lot of things but sense of humour doesn\u2019t know any currency, right?
Social media has been abuzz with tweets, memes and so on about the Musk vs Zuck fight.
The governor of Texas has also quipped with a \u201cdo it, biggest fight in the history\u201d tweet. Madhav Sheth, former CEO of Realme India, also tweeted, \u201cInteresting! Team Elon v\/s Team Zuckerberg. Who are you supporting?\u201d And the common folk on Twitter are absolutely reveling in delight at the prospect of the two men getting out and taking on each other.<\/p>\n

And in shades of the old \u201cSehwag ki maa ka phone<\/span>\u201d commercial for Reliance in the early 2000s, Musk\u2019s mother has apparently joined the conversation. \u201cNo joking,\u201d Maye Musk wrote on Twitter. \u201cFight with words only. In armchairs. 4 feet apart. The funniest person wins.\u201d Well, not exactly \u201ckar lo duniya muthhi mein<\/span>\u201d like Sehwag ki maa but you get the drift.
The real fight?<\/span>
While all this might be just bluster and nothing but a war of tweets, stories and memes, Musk will soon be under pressure. Twitter has been bleeding money and the return of investment for him in one year has been quite low. People have been asking for a Twitter alternative for a while now. Mastodon hasn\u2019t really made the cut whereas other alternatives haven\u2019t gained momentum to put a dent in Twitter\u2019s dominance.
In such a situation, if Meta is readying its answer to Twitter, it will be a curveball for Musk. Meta \u2014 for all its flaws \u2014 does command a huge user base across its family of apps. Be it Instagram or Facebook or Messenger, there are billions who use Meta\u2019s apps daily. On paper, Meta has a readymade audience who might be ready to test the waters with its Twitter alternative. It is tentatively rumoured to be called \u201cThreads\u201d.
Musk has this image of an alpha male. The \u201ccool bro\u201d, the man on whom Tony Stark is supposed to be based. He has a cult fan following who are convinced that the man is destined to change the world. His stint at Twitter has shattered some of those illusions but still, he is the saviour-in-chief for many.
The real fight will be in the social media space where Meta could emerge as a real challenger to Twitter. Meta might be not setting the metaverse on fire, but its social media game is on point. The company does know how to do social media, and it knows how to do it well. Threads or whatever it may be called could turn out to be an \u201cepic fail\u201d moment but the idea that it could succeed might have got Musk worried and the \u201ccage fight\u201d gives him the opportunity to set the narrative on social media as of now.
Will the fight happen? Dana White who is the CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship believes that both men are \u201cdead serious\u201d. Bets are being taken, odds are being shortened in either men\u2019s favour, and it is content that has gone \u201cviral\u201d. It may or may not happen. Such is the divide on social media that it is being billed as a battle between good and evil. Good and evil depend on whose side you are on.
Where should smart money go on in this fight? Right where it is, in your pockets. Just like every school fight, get a few laughs because like the fighters, the audience also knows, there\u2019s nothing serious going on here.<\/div>\n