Star Trek Actor Tweets 'Hire Me As A Face Of Twitter'. Here's How Elon Musk Responded

William Shatner is most known for his career defining role as James Kirk, the Captain of the USS Enterprise in the original Star Trek series.

Actor William Shatner and Elon Musk

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New Delhi: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who has been grabbing headlines over his tweet after his offer to buy the micro-blogging site Twitter,  has now exchanged tweets with Star Trek fame actor William Shatner taking the social media by storm.

In a tweet, Shatner expressed his wish to become the face of the social media giant. “BTW, since it seems to be the latest “thing” on here. I’m stating that I’m staying on Twitter. Besides I think @elonmusk is adorbs. Also, full disclosure: I’m trying to pitch Elon to hire me as face of Twitter. #dumpthebird,” the octogenarian actor tweeted.</p

BTW, since it seems to be the latest “thing” on here. I’m stating that I’m staying on Twitter. Besides I think @elonmusk is adorbs. Also, full disclosure: I’m trying to pitch Elon to hire me as face of Twitter. #dumpthebird 😉😏

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) April 28, 2022

At the moment, the tweet has garnered nearly 44,500 likes and more than 1,700 responses. Musk responded to the wish saying, “You will always be my Captain.”

William shatner is mostly known for his career defining role as James Kirk, the Captain of the USS Enterprise in the original Star Trek series. The show retains a massive fandom decades later. Shatner has also remained in the news as the oldest man ever to go into space when he blasted off in Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin ship last year.

Musk, who is known for his outlandish tweets, also got involved in a Twitter war with US Representative Ocasio-Cortez after she made an indirect rebuttal to his tweet which said that the Democratic Party had been hijacked by extremists, reported Bloomberg.

After Musk tweeted a cartoon showing liberals moving way too far to the left since 2008, he targeted Democrats in a separate post to his nearly 89 million followers on Thursday.

Without naming Musk, Ocasio-Corte rejected his assertion about the party. In a separate tweet, she blamed hate crimes on “some billionaire with an ego problem” who “unilaterally controls a massive communication platform,” though she didn’t make clear to whom she was referring.

Musk bounced back with a tweet, saying “Stop hitting on me, I’m really shy” followed by a smiley-face emoji.

Ocasio-Cortez replied on Twitter: “I was talking about Zuckerberg, but ok,” in an apparent reference to Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and then deleted that response 57 seconds later, per an archive of deleted politician tweets kept by ProPublica.