Elon Musk's Tweet Loses $ 14 Billion to Tesla

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, one of the richest people in the world, caused Tesla to lose a fortune due to a tweet. Tesla lost $ 14 billion after Musk's tweet.

Elon Musk , which has attracted criticism arrows due to the tweets about quarantine application recently , is one of the richest people in the world. According to Forbes' list of real-time billionaires, Musk has a total net worth of $ 36.6 billion from Tesla and SpaceX . This fortune makes Musk the 23rd richest person in the world.

Having great wealth requires great attention, as great power brings great responsibility. Musk, who has 33.5 million followers on Twitter , caused Tesla to lose a fortune due

to a tweet.

“Tesla's stock price is too high”

Tesla , which produces electric cars , experienced one of the biggest drops in its history in the stock market. A tweet by the company's CEO, Elon Musk , caused the company's market value to drop by $ 14 billion.

" I think Tesla's stock price is too high, " said Elon Musk on his tweet from his official Twitter account . The famous business person answered 'no' to the question whether the tweet from the Wall Street Journal was a joke. "My girlfriend is very angry with me," Musk said later in a tweet he threw.

Tesla's appreciation of Tesla, which gained value very quickly at the beginning of this year, decreased the personal wealth of Elon Musk. According to Elon Musk's profile in Forbest, his net worth decreased by $ 2.8 billion .

It is curiously expected whether the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will impose a sanction after the decline due to Musk's sharing . Musk was fined $ 20 million in 2018 for a tweet about Tesla, and he also had to quit the Tesla Chairman of the Board.