Arkunir manages to beat Elon Musk on Twitter (and unleash the crowds)

@Arkunir on Twitter

Frenchman Arkunir manages to beat Elon Musk on his own platform

SOCIAL NETWORKS – A master class. While Elon Musk has become the decried king of Twitter for less than two weeks, a young Frenchman has managed to beat him in his own kingdom. The streamer Arkunir, 20 years old and 554,000 subscribers, has a sense of challenge: Monday, November 7, he challenged himself to ” ratio the boss of Twitter.

” Ratio is a kind of stealing the limelight of a tweet by commenting another tweet. Concretely, it is a question of having more likes than the post you are commenting on. This is what Arkunir undertook to do on one of Elon Musk’s messages, which is followed by 114 million subscribers.

While the billionaire seems to boast of the controversies he is garnering within the social network, chaining the brutal changes for the overhaul of the company, he proclaimed himself ” master of provocation in a tweet. This before quickly descending from its pedestal, volleyed by Arkunir.

” What do you call someone who is a master of provocation? » wrote Elon Musk. “I don’t know but call it ratio”replied the young man.

He tried, he won: in a few tens of minutes his comment got more “ likes as Elon Musk’s post. And, finally, for some unknown reason, the latter took down his tweet.

“We will have had a good laugh at least the guys »

Afraid of being banned from the social network for having inflicted this snub on the businessman, Arkunir does not lose his humor: “ If I ever jump, know that I love you and that we will have had a good laugh at least the guys “, he tweeted, happily savoring his victory with his half a million subscribers. ” you are a king “, enthuses one of them, “ you are the chosen one adds another.

And surprise this Tuesday, November 8, since the troublemaker has reoffended. In response to a new risky tweet from the Twitter boss, Arkunir once again tried to ” ratio Elon Musk.

” Twitter is the worst, but also the best wrote the Tesla founder, inspiring the following response to the French streamer: “ Where are you going ? Take a ratio, and don’t delete this time “. In just a few hours, Arkunir’s tweet already greatly exceeded Elon Musk’s ratio in terms of likes, for the second time and to the delight of the Internet.

This is not the first time that this young Frenchman has been talked about. In July 2021, he challenged himself to go around the world on Google Maps Street View, from San Francisco to Vanino – in the far east of Russia – if Emmanuel Macron responded to his tweet. ” Bank “replied the president before being” ratio in the aftermath by Arkunir. Keeping his word, the latter had taken up the challenge in September, in 125 hours. The funds earned during this operation had been donated to the association 30 million friends.

He had also managed to become for a time, in January 2022, the only Twitter user to be followed by the company’s official account.

On his account, he posts humorous messages, comments on football matches to amuse his community. Arkunir is also present on the live streaming platform Twitch, acclaimed by the community of video game fans.

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