Tech battle: Musk and Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight

The world's 2 astir high-profile exertion billionaires - Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg - person agreed to combat each different successful a cage match.

Mr Musk posted a connection connected his societal media level Twitter that helium was "up for a cage fight" with Mr Zuckerberg.

Mr Zuckerberg, the brag of Facebook and Instagram genitor institution Meta, past posted a screenshot of Mr Musk's tweet with the caption "send maine location".

"The communicative speaks for itself," a Meta spokesperson told the BBC.

Mr Musk past replied to Mr Zuckerberg's effect with: "Vegas Octagon."

The Octagon is the contention mat and fenced-in country utilized for Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bouts. The UFC is based successful Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mr Musk, who turns 52 aboriginal this month, besides tweeted: "I person this large determination that I telephone "The Walrus", wherever I conscionable prevarication connected apical of my hostile & bash nothing."

He besides tweeted: "I astir ne'er enactment out, but for picking up my kids & throwing them successful the air."

Meanwhile, 39-year-old Mr Zuckerberg has already been grooming successful Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and has precocious won Jiu-Jitsu tournaments.

Twitter did not supply a connection erstwhile contacted by the BBC for comment.

The exchanges person gone viral with societal media users debating implicit who would triumph the bout, portion others person posted memes including mocked up posters advertizing the fight.

Earlier this month, Meta showed unit plans for a text-based societal web designed to vie with Twitter, sources person told the BBC.

It could let users to travel accounts they already travel connected Instagram, Meta's image-sharing app.

It could perchance let the institution to bring implicit followers from decentralised platforms specified arsenic Mastodon.

A Meta spokesperson confirmed to the BBC that the level was successful development.

The text-based web - which has a moving rubric of P92 - could crook retired to beryllium a greater rival to Elon Musk's Twitter than either BlueSky oregon Mastodon.