Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid to purchase Twitter and turn it back into a private company has garnered screaming headlines and thrown the internet world into a tizzy. Reactions have ranged from people condemning Musk as a juvenile enfant terrible who is unfit to manage this influential platform, to others such as one New York Times columnist looking forward to how Musk might ‘improve’ the free speech snakepit of Twitter.

Axar.az reports certainly Musk’s past behaviors and brand of ‘cowboy capitalism’ give one pause over the thought of him controlling this global publisher of the digital age. Let us briefly recount just a few of Musk’s past bonehead moves.