Mark Hamill Urges Twitter Users to Stage ‘X’ Boycott, Sends Message to Elon Musk
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Actor Mark Hamill wants Twitter users to come together to boycott Elon Musk by not tweeting on Tuesday, i.e., on 1st August 2023. Well, everyone knows how things have turned upside down for Twitter ever since Musk took over it. As of now the popular actor Mark Hamill wants everyone to join him in showing the power of the people to Tesla CEO.
Read ahead to know more about Mark Hamill asks Twitter users to boycott Elon Musk by not tweeting on 1st August 2023.
Elon Musk and Twitter controversies
There are numerous Twitter users across the world who love to use the app. However, users were looking forward to having certain changes in the social media platform. As such when Elon Musk took over Twitter. User had high hopes for Musk in context with Twitter to become a better platform.
This will only be effective if EVERYONE refrains from tweeting (X-ing?) on August 1st a/k/a #TweetlessTuesday. Let's show the owner the POWER OF THE PEOPLE. Honestly, would it kill you to keep your thoughts to yourself for 1 damn day? Read a book! 👀 #August1stTweetOutDay
https://t.co/0apu2XsbAC— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) July 30, 2023Advertisement
However, the expectations of the Twitter users were not met. In fact, owing to the changes made by Musk for Twitter, the users of the platform even went on to protest against it. Some even started looking for other alternatives to Twitter too.
Mark Hamill asks Twitter users to boycott Elon Musk
Actor Mark Hamill too seems unhappy with Elon Musk. As recently the actor went on social media to ask Twitter users to come up together to boycott the Tesla CEO. Hamill wanted everyone to show the power of the people to Elon Musk.
FINAL TWEET til Wednesday August 2nd 2023!
— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) August 1, 2023
All I want to do is this: I just want to find 10,O11,780+ folks, which is way more than we have, to go silent tomorrow on Twitter. Not a HOAX! Not a SCAM! Just a PRANK to make August a little less blah. TUESDAY: DON'T BE HERE! 🙏 ❤️😆 pic.twitter.com/HW0PTqqDgu
Mark Hamill tweeted “This will only be effective if EVERYONE refrains from tweeting (X-ing?) on August 1st a/k/a #TweetlessTuesday. He added “Let’s show the owner the POWER OF THE PEOPLE. Honestly, would it kill you to keep your thoughts to yourself for 1 d—-day? Read a book!”.
More tweets of Mark Hamill on boycotting Elon Musk
It wasn’t just Mark Hamill who didn’t like Twitter post-Elon Musk took it. Several users in the past have expressed their disappointment at changes made to Twitter under the ownership of Elon Musk. Mark Hamill had even made fun of the “eXecrable” logo of Musk.
HOORAY!!! I've successfully created a distraction. I feel like the new Green M&M! Thanks to all who helped make this a thing & yes, it already IS a thing. A dumb thing, but still…Now how BIG CAN YOU MAKE IT for no apparent reason?🤪 #TweetlessTuesday https://t.co/5UoEPkzFn4
— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) August 1, 2023
Meanwhile, now Twitter users have been asked by Mark to boycott Musk and not to tweet on 1st August 2023. As he has been willing to show the Tesla CEO the power that Twitter users hold. Not to miss, Musk had faced a lot of criticism because of Twitter in the past few months.
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