Technology | Elon Musk Elon Musk Has a Blanket Response to All Press Inquiries And it is the poop emoji By Evann Gastaldo Posted Mar 21, 2023 2:06 AM CDT Copied FILE - Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. (Patrick Pleul/Pool via AP, File) In today's edition of What's Happening at Twitter, Deadline reports that all email inquiries from the media sent to the social network's official press email are receiving an automated reply that includes simply ... a poop emoji. CEO Elon Musk has long had an adversarial relationship with the media, and he announced Sunday: "press@twitter.com now auto responds with [poop emoji]." NPR notes that Twitter's communications team was said to be "decimated" during the company's mass layoffs, and has been essentially silent since November and not responding to press inquiries. (The poop emoji is not a new addition to Musk's Twitter arsenal.) Read These Next State Department abandons a Biden-era font, blaming DEI. Police say a woman with 100+ prior arrests fatally struck a musician. The US just made a big move against Venezuela. Audio from when an off-duty pilot tried to down plane reveals chaos. Report an error