Self-aware Elon Musk admits his Twitter is ‘complete nonsense’

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When Elon Musk can’t sleep, he seems to tweet a lot about sheep.

The Tesla founder and CEO has had a weird couple of nights on Twitter. The billionaire has now spent a significant time posting about sheep. Musk’s tweet ramblings are not completely unusual for him. In fact, he’s found himself in quite a of thanks to his on Twitter. 

However, even Musk found his own tweets to be out there last night.

“My Twitter is pretty much complete nonsense at this point,” Musk wrote.

Elon Musk’s bizarre night actually goes back to Wednesday when the SpaceX founder replied to a tweet from MIT’s Technology Review.

“Look at the size of this absolute unit,” tweeted , sharing a link to a piece about the world’s biggest airplane’s first flight.

“I’m an absolute unit too,” Musk attaching a photo of a rather large sheep.

After a from a Twitter follower, Musk went ahead and made the image of the large sheep his Twitter avatar.

The sheep photo, along with the “absolute unit” caption, actually came from an posted by The Museum of English Rural Life. When the museum discovered Musk’s post, it changed its avatar to a pic of the billionaire. It also changed its Twitter name to “The Muskeum of Elonglish Rural Life.” Sure, ok. 

Musk was clearly amused by this all when he found out and, basically, couldn’t stop tweeting about sheep last night.

Finally, Elon Musk pivoted from sheep tweets to posts about the .

While some of Musk’s followers the billionaire to stop with the meme tweeting, Tesla likely prefers these weird-yet-harmless online musings from its CEO over the tweets that with the SEC.