Pet peeve: I don’t like when media outlets do this. CNBC *KNOWINGLY* messaged a defunct email address at Twitter that they KNOW is programmed to respond with this emoji (and has been for 8 months).
Just email Musk directly for comment. We all have his contact info. It’s such a farce to email a dead email acct you KNOW will return this emoji then act like it’s some sacrilege and write it up in this way.
I think that if Twitter has an official channel for the press than it should be used to request for comments when the news regards the company and not the person specifically.
Yes, they could also try other contacts if they really want to try, but if Twitter knowingly chooses to keep the bot account than the effort to reach out for comments should come from them.
But it doesn’t deserve the highlight, it’d probably be better to just have a note that they reached for comments and were declined.
Taylor Lorenz
Patricia Cordeiro