Crypto Twitter Could Follow Elon Musk To YouTube And Fortnite Coin Is A Scam

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Never a dull day with Tesla CEO Elon Musk apparently. Speculators who were just a few days ago upset that Musk threatened to blow up his deal to purchase Twitter for a hefty $44 billion, now claim he might be looking to purchase YouTube instead. Or it’s all a joke of course, but with Musk we can never be sure.

Meanwhile a scam coin related to the popular video game Fortnite seems to be drawing a lot of attention.

From Twitter To YouTube

Earlier in the week, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk demanded that Twitter turn over more information about its claims that bots and fake accounts constitute less than 5% of the platform’s users, a statement he doesn’t believe.

Given that crypto bots constitute a large part of this 5%, and that crypto coins are influenced heavily by social media, that could have serious consequences for the cryptosphere.

As Musk has still not received that data, he now threatens to blow up the deal altogether. Meanwhile, it was quite striking to notice that he is now lashing out against YouTube, stating: ‘YouTube seems to be nonstop scam ads.’

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 7, 2022

When someone posted the ‘jealous-girlfriend’ meme showing Musk looking at YouTube instead of Twitter, the Tesla CEO reacted with smiling eyes. Already we wonder whether the most influential crypto Twitter accounts will move over to YouTube as well.

Fortnite Token

A newly-announced crypto coin called Fortnite Token was able to quickly attract new investors via promotion on Twitter, until Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney shut down the whole thing rapidly, stating:

There isn’t a Fortnite cryptocurrency. The Twitter accounts promoting such a thing are a scam. Epic’s lawyers are on it. Also, shame on the cryptocurrency marketplaces that enable this kind of thing.

The scam had been ongoing for a few months apparently, but got itself into trouble at the end of May when it sent a May 29 invitation on social media platforms to “start minting your NFT creations on nftoken site and sell on OpenSea.” Someone forwarded it to the gaming corporation CEO who replied “that’s a scam.”

That’s a scam.

— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) June 6, 2022

By now, the Twitter account of Fortnite Token has been closed.

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