Elon Musk sends cryptic ‘moving on’ tweet

“Moving on …,” he said.

Musk later said his tweet was in reference to his confrontation with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates about short-selling shares of Tesla stock.

“(from making fun of Gates for shorting Tesla while claiming to support climate change action),” he said in a follow-up tweet.

Musk sent a tweet late Friday after affirming the authenticity of a screenshot of a text message conversation he had with Gates, with side-by-side images of Gates and the pregnant man emoji, saying, “in case u need to lose a boner fast.”

In the apparent text message exchange, Musk inquired if Gates still had a half-billion-dollar short position on Tesla. Gates said he had not closed out and said he wanted to discuss “philanthropy possibilities,” but Musk shut down the conversation. “Sorry, I cannot take your philanthropy on climate change seriously when you have a massive short position against Tesla, the company doing the most to solve climate change,” Musk said, according to the screenshot.

Gates has not yet issued a public statement on the text messages. When investors try to short sell a stock, they are betting it will fall.

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As recently as Thursday, Musk submitted a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that said he is exploring a tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of Twitter’s stock at $54.20 per share in cash with $46.5 billion in financing for the massive deal.

Musk had previously gone to Twitter’s board to ask to buy the company for $43 billion and take it private, but the board never responded to the offer and instead adopted a “poison pill” to prevent the Tesla founder from wresting control of the company.