Snoop Dogg Jokes He ‘Might Need to Purchase Twitter’ – Billboard

Following information that Elon Musk’s deal to purchase Twitter is “briefly on maintain,” Snoop Dogg determined it was time to step in.

“Might have 2 purchase Twitter now,” he jokingly tweeted on Friday (Might 13), earlier than compiling who his new “board of administrators” can be for the platform, together with Cheech & Chong’s Tommy Chong, “tha man with the ponytail on CNBC” (a.ok.a. Pete Najarian) and, after all, “Jimmy from my nook Fish Fry.”

Gonna substitute the board of administrators with Jimmy from my nook Fish Fry, Tommy Chung and tha man with the ponytail on CNBC.

— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) Might 13, 2022

The “Drop It Like It’s Scorching” rapper then delved into some main adjustments he would make to the platform. “First line of enterprise. Free web on airplanes!!! 29 {dollars} for 1 hour is bulls—,” he tweeted, earlier than including, “Everybody will get a blue checkmark. Even tha bots with 10 letters of their identify that hit you in DMs n simply say “Hiya”. Nah f— these bots.”

Everybody will get a blue checkmark. Even tha bots with 10 letters of their identify that hit you in DMs n simply say “Hiya”. Nah fuck these bots.

— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) Might 13, 2022

Snoop’s tweets come following Musk’s announcement that his plans to purchase Twitter for $44 billion have been “briefly on maintain,” pending particulars on spam and faux accounts on the social media platform.

In a tweet, the Tesla billionaire linked to a Reuters story from Might 2 citing a monetary submitting from Twitter that estimated false or spam accounts made up fewer than 5% of the corporate’s “monetizable day by day energetic customers” within the first quarter.

“Twitter deal briefly on maintain pending particulars supporting calculation that spam/faux accounts do certainly characterize lower than 5% of customers,” Musk stated, indicating he’s skeptical that the variety of inauthentic accounts is that low.

Two hours after his first tweet, Musk stated he’s “nonetheless dedicated” to finishing the acquisition.

Nonetheless dedicated to acquisition

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Might 13, 2022