After #RIPJimmyFallon trends on Twitter, Elon Musk responds to the TV host with jokes - Yahoo News

Late-night big Jimmy Fallon has had his archetypal contented with Elon Musk's Twitter, conscionable weeks aft the Tesla laminitis took implicit the societal media platform.

"#RIPJimmyFallon" began trending Tuesday night, with Twitter users sharing posts and making memes astir the comedian's fake death. The hashtag concerned fans and the "Saturday Night Live" alum himself. Fallon, who is inactive alive, was not happy.

"Elon, tin you hole this? #RIPjimmy Fallon," helium tweeted Tuesday.

According to a announcement that was antecedently displayed with Fallon's tweet, "a idiosyncratic took vantage of Elon Musk's merchandise alteration allowing anyone to person a verified relationship for $8 to make an relationship that looked similar the authoritative @FallonTonight handle."

Fallon asked for Musk's assistance but didn't tag him and didn't get a effect until Wednesday. Instead of offering an contiguous solution, the SpaceX laminitis replied to Fallon with a joking response.

"Fix what?" his first tweet said aboriginal Wednesday.

"Wait a second, however bash we cognize you’re not an alien assemblage snatcher pretending to beryllium Jimmy!?" Musk wrote successful different reply Wednesday afternoon. "Say thing that lone the existent Jimmy would accidental …"

Fallon has not yet responded to Musk. The comedian's Twitter woes travel amid continued issues astir fact-checking and verification connected Twitter — which person gotten worse since Musk's takeover astatine the extremity of October.

Among his archetypal moves, Musk introduced a revamped Twitter Blue, a caller subscription program wherever users fork up $8 a period to beryllium a verified account. As a result, immoderate users started impersonating authoritative accounts, causing antagonistic consequences for immoderate companies.

On the flip side, users who were already verified earlier the caller incarnation of Twitter Blue person complained astir not being capable to alteration their usernames aft that functionality was temporarily frozen.

Among them was vocalist Doja Cat. Last week, the "Say So" instrumentalist jokingly updated her show sanction to "Christmas," but erstwhile she tried to alteration it to thing else, she had immoderate occupation and looked to Musk for help.

"i don’t wanna beryllium christmastide everlastingly delight assistance i’ve made a mistake @elonmusk," she tweeted.

"You should beryllium capable to alteration your sanction now," Musk tweeted, days aft the Grammy victor besides threw expletives his way.

Twitter's caller epoch nether Musk has caused immoderate celebrities to rethink their relationship with the societal media platform. Some — including Shonda Rhimes and Toni Braxton — declared they were breaking up with Twitter. Others, similar blimpish histrion Kevin Sorbo and comic Terrence K. Williams, said they're sticking around.

"I’m not leaving Twitter," Williams tweeted past week.

This communicative primitively appeared successful Los Angeles Times.