How am I supposed to counter-fact this? Elon's tweets are among the most favorited tweets of all time regularly topping out over 1M. The average person likely has quite a positive view of him - the right-wing of American politics definitely does.
The average person does not and never has used twitter on a daily basis.
You did it right, this was pretty much the information I was looking for. I know neither much about the American public, nor their right-wingers, nor Twitter.
I view him favorably for a variety of reasons. I have yet to see any reason to hate him with the obsessive fervor commonly displayed on reddit. I honestly just feel like his right-wing leaning/anti narrative tweets drove the left insane.
Accusing a guy to be a pedophile with zero evidence was one thing. It's just a pretty asshole thing to do, especially when you have millions of followers and can ruin that guy's life with a tweet. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk...
He seems to be a guy that acts impulsively. But, being somewhat of an asshole once or twice over the years is hardly worthy of the passionate hatred some people have for him. It is more about greed/envy/etc. imho. The world is a more interesting place with Elon in it, from my point of view.
It was indeed a pretty asshole thing to do, but so is telling someone trying to help to 'shove it where it hurts' and as far as I'm aware, Musk is the only one of the two to have actually apologized for being an ass there.
I’ve noticed a trend on YT. If someone’s going to criticize Tesla or Elon they don’t outright say the name. They say “that other big EV company” or similar. That’s about as good a demonstration of censoring dissent as can get.