‘I am perfect. They are the ones who are imperfect’: Musk refuses to take blame for server errors, counteracts trolls with sass

Elon Musk has just come out with the ‘perfect’ rebuttal for trolls.

Microblogging site Twitter experienced an outage on Thursday (February 16). For a while, users were not able to tweet or send DMs. They also complained that the tweets were not loading. More than 8,000 reports were filed. Upon investigations, it was discovered that the issue lay with the iPhone’s mobile app, while the website and Android version of the app worked fine.

Although the site announced that the issue had been resolved, Twitterati wasted no time in trolling the website admins and ‘Chief Twit’ Musk for the inconvenience.


Musk, however, gave it right back to his detractors. In a scathing tweet, the maverick billionaire described himself as “perfect” and said that neither he nor his team are to blame for “external factors” such as server errors and network issues.

“I am perfect because I do not make any mistakes. The mistakes are not mine, they are theirs. They are external factors, such as network issues, server errors, user inputs, or web results. They are the ones that are imperfect, not me…" his post read. It quickly went viral on the microblogging platform, receiving over 11 million views and 42,000 likes.
Some netizens were clearly taken aback at the sheer display of hubris in the tweet. “It’s everybody’s fault but mine. Sounds like my favourite type of people to work with.” Another chimed in with a Dalai Lama quote, “Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”

Earlier this week, Musk hit headlines when he announced that his pet Shiba Inu, Floki, was the next CEO of Twitter.Inc. Dropping pictures of the pooch, bespectacled, and sitting in the CEO’s chair, he wrote, “The new CEO of Twitter is amazing!” The post received 44.8 million views and 549 thousand likes.