Elon Musk is not buying Manchester United. Tweet was a 'long-running joke,' billionaire says.

Elon Musk was kidding when he tweeted about purchasing Manchester United, the tycoon explained hours after the fact.

On Tuesday night, Musk took to Twitter to share his political leanings - composing that he upholds "the left 50% of the Republican Party and the right 50% of the Democratic Party."

Then, on an apparently irrelevant note, Musk added: "Likewise, I'm purchasing Manchester United ur welcome."

The Tesla CEO's tweet was met with vast responses from soccer devotees around the world - including shock, humor and trust from a few United fans who might want to see the finish of the flow Glazer family proprietorship. The greatest club in England is likewise as yet faltering from its latest 4-0 misfortune at Brentford on Saturday.

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However, the chance of Musk turning into United's next proprietor was brief. At the point when inquired as to whether he was not kidding, Musk answered that it was a "long-running joke on Twitter" a few hours after the fact.

"I'm not accepting any games groups," he composed. "Despite the fact that, assuming it were any group, it would be Man U. They were my fav group as a youngster."

Beside kidding about purchasing a Premier League club, Musk is gazing intently at a court fight with Twitter. Musk proposed to purchase Twitter for $44 billion recently, yet later attempted to pull out of the arrangement - guaranteeing Twitter was swarmed with a bigger quantities of "spam bots" and phony records than the web-based entertainment organization had recently unveiled.

In July, Twitter sued Musk. Musk later documented a countersuit, blaming the organization for extortion. A preliminary is normal in October.