Elon Musk maintains Fortnite on Twitter after joking about the purchase of the video game

The last target of Tesla

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The anger of CEO Elon Musk? The Fortnite video game.

In a post on Twitter, Musk jokingly claimed On Friday, you bought and then deleted the popular online video game, claiming that it "had to be done (sic)". The tweet contained an image that appears to be a modified screenshot of a MarketWatch article.

Official Twitter of Fortnite

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Account replied in mockery It will take a decade for Musk's SpaceX to build its first base on Mars. Musk replied: saying, "The reality is hard."

Fortnite is an online video game launched in 2017 that can be played on many devices, including Windows computers.

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Android

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and Apple

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mobile devices, the Nintendo switch

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the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4

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The Battle Royale mode of the game had 125 million players in June.

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The Musk station has also attracted many reactions among Tesla and Fortnite fans. A parody account Elon Musk called Bored Elon Musk tweeted that Musk should "stay at [his] (Musk, in an answer, suggested that it could be the creator of the parodic account.)

Others joked that Musk should buy T-Series, the Indian music label that operates a YouTube channel with the second largest number of subscribers behind the video game commentator PewDiePie. Another Twitter suggested user that Musk "buy and remove" Ford

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instead of.

Musk hired a lot of people who commented on the tweet, including a person who challenged his involvement that the Fortnite players have no social life. The game is extremely popular among young men – much to the dismay of some of their parents, who are sometimes left behind when players buy extras while playing.

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In late September, Musk and Tesla agreed to a $ 40 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Musk's tweeting fraud charges earlier this year, in which it claimed to consider the builder to a private company.

The settlement also requires Tesla to remove Musk as chairman of the board of directors and the company from setting guidelines and monitoring Musk's presence on social media.