Elon Musk deletes own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook pages after #deletefacebook

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Elon Musk apparently wasn’t aware that his company SpaceX had a Facebook page. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO has responded to a comment on Twitter calling for him to take down the SpaceX, Tesla and Elon Musk official pages in support of the #deletefacebook movement by first acknowledging he didn’t know one existed, and then following up with promises that he would indeed take them down.

He’s done just that, as the SpaceX Facebook page is now gone, after having been live earlier today (as you can see from the screenshot included taken at around 12:10 PM ET).

As of this publishing, going to any of the above pages directs you to a message saying “Sorry, this content isn’t available right now” instead. That’s a quick turnaround, since Musk seems only to have found out these pages existed about 20 minutes prior to his taking them all offline.

Musk also responded to another comment on Twitter regarding his own and his companies’ prolific use of Instagram, which is of course owned by Facebook. The prolific entrepreneur noted that Instagram was “borderline,” since FB’s “influence is slowly creeping in,” but it seems like he’s okay with maintaining that presence for now.

Prior to their deletion, both the SpaceX and Tesla pages had over 2.6 million Likes and Follows, and super high engagement rates. You have to wonder whether Musk’s social media management employees cried a little when these went down.

FaceMcShooty30 on March 23rd, 2018 at 17:14 UTC »

This seems like a good time to suggest using the SpaceXnow app. I gave up FB after the new year (before it was cool am I right?) And I really missed getting the live notifications. SpaceXnow does a great job of keeping me up to date on everything now.

Aviator1297 on March 23rd, 2018 at 17:00 UTC »

What’s the #deleteFacebook movement and why is Elon supporting it?

Splooplet on March 23rd, 2018 at 16:58 UTC »

Elon is on a roll. His last 15 replies on Twitter are priceless, including the one about never once having seen the SpaceX FB page!