“We named @Tesla after Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest engineers ever. He was a penniless immigrant whose inventions led to American dominance in electricity generation and usage. https://t.co/1K1IdSUjM0”
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15 years of Elon, fully searchable. The production archive uses Supabase as the source of truth, with 94,952 indexed tweets available in development as a full-archive fallback and a curated annotation layer for context, theory, and how major claims aged.
“Wow, it’s so crazy the Epstein “killed himself” before realizing he was “innocent” 🙄 And Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for what exactly? Oh yeah. Epstein client arrest counter is still zero. [@Teslaconomics] Sorry… maybe a dumb question. But if there are Epstein files, videos, and names tied to serious crimes, why hasn’t anyone been arrested yet?”
“Encouraging destruction of Teslas throughout the country is extreme domestic terrorism!! [@MarioNawfal] 🚨🇺🇸 TESLA OWNERS DOXED: SELL YOUR CAR OR STAY ON THE LIST A website called “Dogequest” has reportedly published the names, addresses, and phone numbers of Tesla owners across the U.S., complete with an interactive map and a Molotov cocktail cursor. The site claims it will only”
“@vkhosla @Tesla @SpaceX @X Vinod, you’re not just such a pompous asshole that you tried to stop the public from using a public beach near your house, you’ve also gone full retard. My partner, Shivon, is half Indian and my eldest son with her is named in honor of the great Indian physicist Chandrasekhar.”
“Over a million combustion engine (it’s right there in the name!) car fires per year & thousands of deaths, but one Tesla car fire with no injuries gets biggest headlines. Why the double standard? This is a real question.”
“@teslaownersSV Me with my son, Strider Sekhar (named after Aragorn & great Indian physicist Chandrasekhar) and daughter, Comet Azure, named after the most powerful spell in Elden Ring”
“Today is Nikola Tesla's birthday. I hope he likes what we've done in his name.”
“Tesla history trivia: we didn’t actually come up with the Tesla Motors name. Bought trademark off Brad Siewert for $75k in late 2004. He’d originally filed for it in 1994. Our alternative name was Faraday, which was used by a competitor several years later.”
“Try it, you’ll like it! Totally new messaging and calling communication system that replaces the old DMs. [@teslaownersSV] 🚨 Did you know 𝕏 Chat lets you do all this? >Change your name anytime >Send disappearing messages >Block screenshots & get alerts >Mute/unmute chats easily >Voice & video calls >Preview media inside chat >Block messages >Delete entire conversation”
“@teslaownersSV @imPenny2x @ADL If this continues, we will have no choice but to file a defamation suit against, ironically, the “Anti-Defamation” League. If they lose the defamation suit, we will insist that they drop the the “anti” part of their name, since obviously … 😂”
“@pmddomingos Faraday was the almost the name of Tesla if we couldn’t buy the Tesla Motors trademark”
“@teslaownersSV Haha true! The top alternate name, if we couldn’t acquire the Tesla Motors trademark, was Faraday, which a competitor ended up using.”
“@OwenSparks_ Yeah, exactly. Also, other companies are using the Tesla name for solar and Powerwall. Will put a stop to that.”
“@teslaownersSV 🤣🤣 That was me tweeting from @SpaceX when someone else had snatched my name. I was actually one of the earliest Twitter users, but dropped my account because people were tweeting such trivialities at first. @westcoastbill convinced me to get back in.”
“@AustinTeslaClub That is the goal. Our official name is actually Space Exploration Technologies. SpaceX is short form.”
“@teslaownersSV Yes. Tesla Autopilot/AI team is doing amazing work! 10.69 will be worth its name.”
“@PPathole Alternate name for our company was Faraday, who invented the electric motor, whereas Nikola Tesla invented the AC induction motor”
“@woonomic @VaibhavSisinty Not even close to that. It was a shell corp with no employees, no IP, no designs, no prototype, literally nothing but a biz plan to commercialize AC Propulsion’s Tzero car, which was introduced to me by JB Straubel, *not* Eberhard. Even name “Tesla Motors” was owned by others!”
“As a thank you to Tesla short sellers, we named a 💨 after them haha https://t.co/5GCgM4RT4W https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/19/listen-to-a-tesla-make-6-farting-noises-on-demand/”
“@SamTwits Was also due to me that we got trademark to use Tesla Motors as initial name & later obtained https://t.co/46TXqRJBrz URL http://Tesla.com”
“@WholeMarsBlog Then HW5, which has been renamed to AI5, in the second half of next year. The Tesla AI5 computer has ~10X the capability of HW4 computer and Tesla makes the whole software stack.”
“SolarCity panels produce enough zero carbon energy to charge entire Tesla fleet https://t.co/bn4LRzii1V http://blog.solarcity.com/solarcity-customers-8-gigawatt-hours-teslas?sourcetype=SocialPost&trafficsource=twitter&campaignname=TW-APR2016-CompanyNews-03”
“@Teslarati Large pouch cells undergo significant volumetric changes at high state of charge. Even so, fire risk is probably less than gasoline cars. There are over 200,000 combustion engine car fires every year in US alone. It’s literally in the name. https://t.co/uJPlB3IbzQ https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/News-and-Research/Fire-statistics-and-reports/US-Fire-Problem/osvehiclefires.pdf”
“@phloemis @DirtyTesLa “Tweepcred”, possibly the worst product name I’ve ever heard, will be deleted. Not simply renamed. Deleted.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Tesla Autopilot was literally named after the term used in aviation. Also, what about Autobahn!?”
“@ICannot_Enough @genesimmons @JoeBiden By the way, Tesla factory worker compensation is the highest in the auto industry https://t.co/Peo3qtYc5D https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/r3m74k/andrew_sorkin_surprisingly_good_questions_to_mary/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf”
“@ajtourville Important to note that we also use the Tesla HW4 AI computer in the training loop with Nvidia GPUs, currently at roughly a 1:2 ratio. Also, we’re changing the name from Hardware 4 (HW4) to Artificial Intelligence 4 (AI4). That means ~90k H100, plus ~40k AI4 computers.”
“@MrRobCapewell @Tesla @Apple @ValueAnalyst1 Yeah, feels like something is messed up with Apple news app. Almost only ever shows negative news. Nickname is “the hate stream” 🤣”
“@Teslarati @BocaChicaGal We’re rapidly changing alloy constituents & forming methods, so traditional names like 304L will become more of an approximation”
“@andyweedman @karpathy @DirtyTesla Stop … In the Name of Love! https://t.co/kBsTi5jz16 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NPBkiBbO4_4”
“@coffeetabletsla @PPathole @Twitter With usernames like that, the bots aren’t even trying hard!”
“@EV_Stevee @Tesla Great name 👍”
“@IheartTesla @EvaFoxU @Tesla Going with nomenclature of Giga [most widely understood location name] vs Giga #, so Giga Shanghai, Giga Nevada, Giga New York & Giga Berlin”
“RT @MarioNawfal: 🚨🇺🇸TESLA NAMED A TOP 100 EMPLOYER OF CHOICE IN 2024 Tesla’s Form 10-K filing reveals the company earned a spot among the…”
“@nichegamer Yeah, we wanted to name our company after Tesla, the great scientist/engineer, but use of the Tesla name in automotive was already trademarked in the US, Europe & later China.”
“RT @kimbal: I've named my main Tesla car 'K.I.T.T.' for 2 years now. It's all that and more 🤠”
“@CodingMark @JosephVVallace @teslaownersSV @Kristennetten @thirdrowtesla @Tesla Yeah, it’s named after my friend Joe who suggested the feature”
“Tesla Model S named top model in perceived quality http://t.co/hOhZMIG78u via @USATODAY http://usat.ly/1lIT4DE”
“@autonomyEV @tesla_truth @marialauraadr @_TomCross_ One of our main conference rooms at SpaceX is named after Goddard”
“@EclecticLip Was no "company", just a (wrong) biz plan to commercialize ACP's Tzero car. No tech or IP, no employees & didn't even own Tesla Motors name.”
“@disinformatico @Eddy_Jahn Tesla Tesla Autopilot is named after aircraft autopilot, as it is always expected that a pilot must stay alert.”
“There will ultimately be tens of millions of driverless Teslas throughout the world giving rides 24/7 https://t.co/zWK5dHy75e”
“Other trucks look badass, Cybertruck actually is https://t.co/5DufWfoOAA”
“That’s a happy picture 🥰 [@teslaownersSV] The picture that wins the internet today”
“Cybertruck can beat a Porsche 911 while towing a Porsche 911!”
“Just drove Cybertruck around Austin! https://t.co/QN19Agqa7R”
“The evil knuckleheads picked the wrong vehicle for a terrorist attack. Cybertruck actually contained the explosion and directed the blast upwards. Not even the glass doors of the lobby were broken.”
“Cybertruck looks like the future”
“You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin”
“Cybertruck https://t.co/OulLTYy15s”
