Dogecoin founder bombards Musk, Musk hits back angrily

Billionaire Elon Musk and Dogecoin (DOGE) co-founder Jackson Palmer are in renewed social media spat as Palmer claims he can delete tweets with a simple Python script robot.

Palmer, an Australian, said in an interview that his script can automatically reply to tweets that have been scammed, in order to remind users to be alert to danger. On May 30, he told news outlet Crikey that Musk had contacted him about getting the script, but he claimed the billionaire's technical knowledge was so lacking that he didn't know how to operate it.

"Elon contacted me to get that script and quickly discovered that his understanding of programming wasn't as good as he thought it was."

Palmer continued to rub salt in the wound, recalling that a year earlier he had called the SpaceX founder a "liar" who "peddled a vision of someday delivering on what he promised without knowing it himself. "

Musk took offense to Palmer's comments and hit back at Palmer on Twitter on May 31. He suggested that Palmer's code fell short of its promise to solve Twitter's bot problem, adding: "My kid wrote better code at 12."

"You're falsely claiming that your crappy Python code can get rid of bots. Well bro, share it with the world..."

He asked Palmer to make the script public so it would come under greater scrutiny. Palmer hasn't done that yet.

On May 17, Musk tweeted that his Twitter deal would fail unless CEO Parag Agrawal proved that less than 5% of the platform's users were bots. "Advance".

Palmer's displeasure with Musk was on full display in an interview with Crikey, in which he claimed that Musk intended to destroy Twitter rather than actually buy it. Musk, he said, may actually just be trying to "make it shitty at a lower price, and I think that's what he's doing."

DOGE’s co-founder, who left the project back in 2015, harbors a deep grudge against the cryptocurrency industry as a whole, calling it an unfair “plutocracy cartel” last year. Meanwhile, Musk is one of Dogecoin’s biggest supporters and has been dubbed Dogecoin’s CEO.

Musk and Palmer sparred just two days after Musk announced on May 29 that SpaceX would accept DOGE as payment for the space exploration company's merchandise.

Investors in DOGE have not reacted to the spat between the two tech giants, and DOGE is down just 1.9 percent over the past 24 hours to trade at $0.086, according to CoinGecko.

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