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The Tweet Hall of Fame.

Elon's posts that moved markets and made memes.

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Why it matters. The two words 'funding secured' became one of his most-discussed posts; it led to a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and a 2023 jury cleared him in the shareholder lawsuit over it.
Why it matters. Announced the close of his $44 billion Twitter takeover.
Why it matters. Tesla shares moved about 10% that day, roughly $14 billion of market value, a measure of how closely markets follow his posts.
Why it matters. Set the tone for his content-moderation overhaul.
Why it matters. The four words that opened his unsolicited bid to buy Twitter.
Why it matters. The reply to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, days after the Twitter purchase, became the defining post of the $8 verification era.
Why it matters. He posted it 2 days after Twitter's board accepted his $44 billion offer.
Why it matters. Tied the purchase to his long-running super-app vision.
Why it matters. His free-speech thesis for buying the platform.
Why it matters. It riffs on the line about spice in Frank Herbert's Dune and applies it to internet culture.
Why it matters. One of many posts that moved Dogecoin's price.
Why it matters. He posted it the day Bloomberg ranked him the world's richest person.
Why it matters. He put his own job to a public vote, followed the result, and in 2023 handed the chief executive role to Linda Yaccarino.
Why it matters. Neuralink named its first product that day, after what the implant lets a user do: control a phone or computer by thinking.
Why it matters. The viral tug-of-war clip, posted 3 days after the window-smash reveal, showed the stainless-steel truck's real pulling power.
Why it matters. The two-word provocation about warming Mars spawned merchandise and became one of his most-quoted lines.
Why it matters. The rallying cry that condenses his lifelong goal of settling the red planet into two words.
Why it matters. He walked into Twitter headquarters carrying a sink days before closing the deal, turning a pun into an image seen around the world.
Why it matters. Marked the first paid driverless Robotaxi rides in Austin, a milestone years in the making.
Why it matters. The plain caption on the day SpaceX first caught a returning booster with the launch tower arms, a feat many thought impossible.
Why it matters. Announced the first person to receive a Neuralink brain implant, opening the human phase of the company's work.
Why it matters. The poll result that restored Donald Trump's account, one of the most consequential moderation decisions of the takeover.
Why it matters. The line that made free speech absolutist a defining label for his public philosophy.
Why it matters. A one-line summary of the mission he has repeated for two decades as the reason SpaceX exists.
Why it matters. He set a car's official price to a meme number, a signature blend of product news and internet humor.
Why it matters. His public endorsement of Donald Trump minutes after the assassination attempt, the start of his open turn into electoral politics.
Why it matters. The what did you get done last week ultimatum that came to symbolize his government efficiency effort.
Why it matters. His framing of the Department of Government Efficiency on the day the role was announced.
Why it matters. It announced what became the $100 million XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition, one of his largest philanthropic commitments.
Why it matters. It is believed to be one of the largest tax bills any individual has paid in United States history.
Why it matters. He put a multi-billion-dollar stock sale to a public vote, then followed through as the poll directed.
Why it matters. The pledge to give up his homes and belongings that reframed how he talks about wealth and purpose.
Why it matters. A compact statement of the first-principles thinking he credits for his engineering approach.
Why it matters. His widely quoted, widely debated view on work intensity at his companies.
Why it matters. Marked the first social media post composed by a paralyzed patient using a Neuralink implant alone.
Why it matters. He posted the Associated Press photo from Butler with no caption, minutes after his endorsement.
Why it matters. Posted as the 2024 election was called, with a photo of him, Donald Trump, and Dana White. One of the most-liked posts of that year.
Why it matters. Tesla became the first major automaker to take Bitcoin at checkout. The one-line announcement sent the crypto market higher that morning.
Why it matters. Hours after Ukraine's digital minister asked for help, he switched Starlink on and sent terminals toward the war.
Why it matters. It was his first major policy announcement after taking Twitter, and 3 weeks later Donald Trump's account came back through a public poll.
Why it matters. The caption the morning he added Bitcoin to his profile, a line that became shorthand for how he reads the future.
Why it matters. The sentence that framed Dogecoin as a populist project, not a joke, and still gets quoted whenever the coin moves.
Why it matters. The public explanation for cutting Twitter staff in the first week of ownership, when the company was losing more than $4 million a day.
Why it matters. The post that paused Tesla vehicle purchases in Bitcoin over mining's energy mix, a decision that moved the crypto market in a day.
Why it matters. The rule he set for the rebuilt platform. Legal speech stays up, but distribution is not a right.
Why it matters. He said even the account tracking his jet would stay up, a live test of the free-speech line he had just taken over Twitter to defend. Five weeks later X suspended it under a new rule against sharing a person's live location, after a threat to his son.
Why it matters. He owned the smashed-window demo two days later, turning the smashed-window moment into a joke Tesla still leans into.
Why it matters. The one-line launch of his AI company, framed as a bid to understand the universe rather than just ship a chatbot.
Why it matters. He replaced Twitter's press inbox with a poop-emoji auto-reply, a one-character statement on how he wanted the company to deal with traditional media.
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