The 53-year-old replied to a comment on the social media platform, formerly called Twitter, made by tech investor and essayist Paul Graham, who branded the "deprioritization of tweets" with links in them as its "biggest flaw".

His post read: "The deprioritization of tweets with links in them is Twitter's biggest flaw. It bothers me more than all the new right-wing trolls.

"Trolls I'm used to, but what draws me to Twitter is to find out what's going on, and you can't do that without links."

Later on, the Tesla boss replied: "Just write a description in the main post and put the link in the reply.

"This just stops lazy linking."

Paul then said: "If I write a new essay and tweet a link to it, that's "lazy linking," but if I tweet that I've written a new essay and then put the link in a reply, that's somehow better?"

Elon then went silent and has not replied since.

In October 2023, the billionaire implicitly said the algorithm "optimises time spent on X", and it is better to "post content in long form" as hyperlinks "don't get as much attention".

According to AXIOS, he said at the time: "Our algorithm tries to optimize time spent on X, so links don't get as much attention, because there is less time spent if people click away.

"[The] best thing is to post content in long form on this platform as links don't get as much attention."