Elon Musk Announces Another Twitter Break, Netizens React Elon Musk Announces Another Twitter Break, Netizens React Elon Musk recently surpassed Jeff Bezos to become the world's richest man Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that he is taking a break from Twitter. After making a debut on a new social-conversation app, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that he will be taking a break from Twitter. The announcement was worded exactly like his tweet from June 2020, when he had taken another break from the microblogging platform. "Off Twitter for a while," Elon Musk, 49, wrote - just as he had done eight months ago before a Twitter break that lasted two days.