'Elon flexes his Muskles?' Amul topical takes a dig at Elon Musk's move to take over Twitter

Tesla boss Elon Musk is all over the Internet for almost joining the Twitter board to offering a $43 billion cash take over offer.

After Musk's TED talk on Thursday, he hinted at the possibility of a hostile bid in which he would bypass Twitter's board and put the offer directly to its shareholders, tweeting: "It would be utterly indefensible not to put this offer to a shareholder vote".

This sent shockwaves on the Internet, and Indian dairy brand Amul wasn't too far behind to share its two-bits on the ongoing issue.


Amul shared a topical on Musk's move to take over Twitter. The cartoon sketch features the SpaceX boss holding a cage as he tries to lure the blue bird.

The witty caption on the image read: "Elon flexes his Muskles? Amul takes over bread daily."


However, several users slammed Amul and called the cartoon misleading, adding that Musk was actually trying to implement "free speech" on Twitter by freeing the microblogging site.

"This is so wrong . The picture should be the other way around . He is freeing the platform," one user commented.



Meanwhile, Twitter on Friday adopted a "poison pill" to limit Musk's ability to raise his stake in the company. The microblogging site has said that any acquisition of over 15 percent of the firm's stock without its OK would trigger a plan to flood the market with shares and thus make a buyout much harder.

Just a few days ago, Musk had turned to Twitter for yet another poll about the microblogging platform.

"Taking Twitter private at $54.20 should be up to shareholders, not the board" the poll read, with option of yes or no.

Yes garnered around 83.5 per cent, while 16.5 per cent people voted for no.


Total 2,859,034 Twitter users voted on Musk's poll.