Elon Musk is Elon Reeve Musk, CEO and product architect at Tesla and founder, CEO, and chief engineer at SpaceX. He also serves as founder and CEO at xAI and founder and CTO at X Corp., founded The Boring Company, co-founded Neuralink, and previously co-founded OpenAI. Elon Musk's Twitter Score is 1000 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing him at rank #1 (top 0.1%) out of 389,201 accounts tracked on this platform and among the 36 accounts that score above 900.
Elon Musk's corporate decisions have drawn sustained attention across crypto markets. Tesla invested $1.5 billion in bitcoin in early 2021 per its SEC 10-K filing, began accepting bitcoin for US vehicle purchases on March 24, 2021, then suspended those purchases on May 13, 2021, citing concerns about fossil-fuel use in bitcoin mining. SpaceX announced the DOGE-1 lunar mission, a commercial payload paid entirely in Dogecoin, to fly on a Falcon 9 rocket; in February 2026, Musk said SpaceX may put Dogecoin on the moon next year. The Boring Company launched Dogecoin as a payment option for rides on its Las Vegas Loop transit system. A proposed class action filed in June 2022 alleged Musk and Tesla manipulated DOGE prices through tweets and publicity stunts; a federal judge dismissed the $258 billion lawsuit on August 29, 2024.
Elon Musk closed a $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in October 2022, taking the platform private. In March 2025, xAI acquired X Corp. in an all-stock deal valuing xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion; on February 2, 2026, SpaceX acquired xAI as a wholly owned subsidiary in an all-stock transaction. xAI raised $6 billion in a December 2024 Series C round from backers including Andreessen Horowitz, BlackRock, Fidelity, and Sequoia Capital. Arkham data mentioned by CoinDesk showed a wallet tagged as SpaceX held 6,977 BTC valued at about $815 million after a July 2025 transfer of 1,308 BTC, and CoinDesk reported Musk was exploring a potential Tesla and SpaceX merger that would combine about 30,221 bitcoin worth roughly $3.3 billion, potentially making the combined entity a top-5 corporate bitcoin holder. X Corp. obtained a money transmitter license in Washington DC in July 2024, bringing its licensed payment jurisdictions to 31 states plus DC as it pursued payment services. He previously served as de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency from January 20 to May 30, 2025, and previously worked at the Executive Office of the President as Senior Advisor to the President.
Elon Musk has 240,731,202 followers as of July 2026 on X and has published 105,265 posts. He is mentioned by 12,399 accounts, with 103,308 total mentions across the platform.
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Elon Musk attracts followers across multiple professional categories. The accounts that follow Elon Musk include 6,471 founders, 1,039 angel investors, 4,324 influencers and 664 VCs, among them Balaji, Brian Armstrong, Chris Dixon, Solana, vitalik.eth and Jack.