---
title: "Fuming Elon Musk Lashes Out At Mark Zuckerberg As Twitter Killer App Thrives"
description: "Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a \"cuck\" and proposed a d*ck-measuring contest between the two."
date: "2023-07-10"
modified: "2023-07-10"
authors:
  - name: "Sharon Adarlo"
    job_title: "Correspondent"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/sadarlo"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-lashes-out-mark-zuckerberg-twitter-killer-thrives"
categories:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "mark zuckerberg"
  - "the digest"
  - "threads"
---

# Fuming Elon Musk Lashes Out At Mark Zuckerberg As Twitter Killer App Thrives

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/elon-musk-lashes-out-against-mark-zuckerberg-as-twitter-killer-thrives.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Getty / Futurism\</em\>*

## Playground Taunts

The fiery feud between Twitter CEO Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reached a sub-basement low after Musk [tweeted](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1678098028849143809>) that "Zuck is a cuck."

Meanwhile, Zuckerberg's Twitter clone Threads has mopped up a staggering [100 million users](<https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/10/23787453/meta-instagram-threads-100-million-users-milestone>) within just five days of its launch and Twitter's traffic is "[tanking](<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/10/twitter-traffic-sinks-in-wake-of-changes-and-launch-of-rival-platform-threads-elon-musk>)."

And because this era of late-stage capitalism isn't weird enough, eight hours later, Musk [followed up](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1678222776908275712>) his Sunday insult with the tweet: "I propose a literal dick-measuring contest."

In short, Musk is acting like a pre-pubescent child, who has lost at a game of Monopoly — a cringeworthy hissy fit that may have been intended as a joke, but arguably comes across as sheer desperation.

## Billionaire vs Billionaire

Besides attacking him on Twitter, Musk has also [threatened to sue Meta](<https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads>) over Threads, saying the company hired Twitter employees to develop its text-based social media platform and stole its intellectual property.

When Musk made his dick comment, the usual peanut gallery on Twitter responded with shock and derision. One user[ tweeted](<https://twitter.com/SaeedDiCaprio/status/1678232564396437504>)**:** "Zuck’s meat was on his mind for eight hours I’m crying."

"Still amazed that in response to Twitter imploding and traffic plummeting because Meta launched Threads, a thoroughly humiliated Elon Musk's best rebuttal was that he see Mark Zuckerberg's dick," journalist Jordan Uhl [tweeted.](<https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1678299219570970625>) "Simply phenomenal."

For all of his childish, playful taunts, Musk is clearly threatened by the rise of Threads, which has quickly turned into a viable alternative for disenfranchised Twitter users who have long complained about Musk's erratic decision-making.

Will this be the last we hear from Twitter? Given the data we're seeing, Musk's platform is clearly bleeding traffic right now.

But Musk is not giving up without a fight — even if that fight involves an MMA-style cage match or a primary school-style "dick-measuring contest."

**More on Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg:** [*Furious Elon Musk Is Threatening To Sue Meta for Ripping Off Twitter*](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-threatening-sue-meta-ripping-off-twitter>)