In the past few hours, the tweet has received over 2 million likes and 455,000 retweets.
"Next I am buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in," Musk wrote on the micro-blogging site.
Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022
He also shared a screenshot that said: "Now I'm going to buy McDonald's and fix all of the ice cream machines."
However, the Tesla CEO said it was unlikely he could make it happen." Listen, I can't do miracles OK," he told his followers.
In another tweet, he said: "Let's make Twitter maximum fun".
On Monday, Twitter Monday announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an entity wholly owned by Musk for $54.20 per share in cash in a transaction valued at nearly $44 billion.
Upon completion of the transaction, Twitter will become a privately-held company.
The purchase price represents a 38 per cent premium to Twitter's closing stock price on April 1, which was the last trading day before Musk disclosed his nearly nine per cent stake in the platform.
The environmental movement, launched in 2016, has helped clear the coasts of 42 countries around the world of discarded plastics.
"These brand audits offer undeniable proof of the role that corporations play in perpetuating the global plastic pollution crisis," said Von Hernandez, the Global Coordinator of Break Free From Plastic, at the presentation of the study in Manila.
Between September 9 and 15, over 10,000 volunteers carried out 239 plastic cleaning actions on coasts and other natural environments in 42 countries, Efe news reported.
They collected more than 187,000 pieces of plastic, of which more than 65 per cent were from products by Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Nestle. But companies such as Danone, Mondelez, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever, among others, were also mentioned in the report.
"The companies have a choice to make. They can be part of the problem or they can be part of the solution", Hernandez told Efe.
"If they continue the use of problematic and unnecessary plastic packaging they are just encouraging more production and more pollution".
Around 100,000 pieces of plastic collected were made of materials like polystyrene, PVC (polyvinyl chloride), PET (polyethylene terephthalate) or the film of single-use plastic that were not biodegradable, the report said.
Plastic production has reached 320 million metric tonnes per year and is expected to grow by 40 per cent over the next decade, which will exponentially increase the release of greenhouse gases. Ninety per cent of plastics are produced from fossil fuels and pollutants.
"We must act now to demand that corporate brands reject their overpackaging habit in order to meaningfully reverse the demand for new plastic," said Hernandez.
The study said that these large corporations must take responsibility for polluting the environment, as production of plastics exposes harmful substances to communities living near factories and pollutes foods and products contained in plastic wraps.
Eighty per cent of the 8.3 billion metric tonnes of plastic produced since 1950 was still present in the environment, mainly in the oceans, according to studies cited in the "Break Free From Plastic" report.
Since then, only 9 per cent of that plastic had been properly recycled and 12 per cent incinerated.
In the study, published in the Journal of Children and Media, the researchers investigated the links between marketing and media exposure and the preference for international foods and beverages among children in India, Pakistan, Brazil, China, Nigeria and Russia.
The kids who easily identified the logos of international food and beverage brands such as McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) and Coca-Cola, were more likely to request and prefer the processed foods marketed by these international corporations, the findings showed.
"Our findings draw attention to the insidious and pervasive nature of marketing and how it impacts children's health," said principal investigator of the study Dina Borzekowski from the University of Maryland in the US.
"Why would a five year old say that they want a Coca Cola over a lassi? Kentucky Fried Chicken over a stir-fried chicken and vegetable dish made by mom?" Borzekowski said.
For this study, Borzekowski and colleagues gathered information from 2,422 children between age 5 and 6 years from India, Brazil, China, Nigeria, Pakistan and Russia.
The participants were shown pictures of media characters (both internationally and locally popular ones) and they were asked to identify those pictures and characters.
The researchers found that three-fourths could name Tom and Jerry and two-thirds could name Mickey Mouse.
They also did a matching activity, where children were shown cards with different logos and asked to match each card with the item it might represent.
Overall, about 60 per cent were able to associate the Coca Cola swirl with an image of a soda glass.
To assess food preferences, the research team showed children two similar products -- one international and one domestic -- and asked which product they would want.
They also had children rate how much they desired a variety of domestic and international products.
Character and logo recognition in young children was consistently and significantly related to the selection of international over domestic and local food and beverage options.
The influence of logo recognition was even stronger than that of media exposure, the study found.
The researchers believe that understanding the reach of global and international marketing and its impact on food preferences could help inform public health approaches to reverse trends of growing childhood obesity.
The beverage giant, based in the city of Atlanta in the US, said in a statement Thursday that it has begun notifying the first employees and that the process will be completed in the coming months.
"We have committed that we will ensure fair, equitable and compassionate treatment of our people throughout this process," the company, which has some 130,000 employees worldwide, added.
Coca-Cola, which has been hit by declining consumption of carbonated beverages in the US, said in October that it planned to cut costs by $3 billion through 2019.
The company posted net income of around $6.3 billion for the first nine months of last year, down 7.5 percent from the same period in 2013, while net operating revenues fell nearly 2 percent to $35.1 billion.
Coca-Cola's shares, which have climbed more than 8 percent over the past 12 months, were up around 0.8 percent Thursday in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
A non-alcoholic malt drink is a high energy beverage, brewed in the same fashion as beer or ale. The beverage generally contains under 100 calories, compared to 300 of an average carbonated soft drink.
Besides Heineken, Anheuser-Busch InBev has also entered this segment to target the vast untapped market of people, who refrain from consuming alcohol. Coca-Cola has forayed into the niche category in a big way with its global brand Barbican.
In case of Coca-Cola, the entry aims at introduction of more healthy options in the F&B segment.
The company launched a pilot project six months back to introduce the product which is tragetted towards the youth. "We introduced Barbican, a non-alcoholic malt-based beverages, in select Indian markets," a senior company official told IANS.
Similarly, it was consumer demand for no-alcohol brews that led United Breweries to launch -- Heineken 0.0 -- which caters to a segment of health-conscious, young adults.
"The product tastes like a beer with no alcohol. It is targeted at people, who want to drink a beer tasting product on non-alcoholic occasions, driving, in the office, after a game, in a restaurant with family. There are lots of occasions like these," Ramesh Viswanathan, Chief New Business Officer, United Breweries, told IANS.
"The product has only 21 cal per 100 ml unlike soft drinks which is 45-50 cal per 100ml. So less than half."
This is the second non-alcoholic beverage in United Breweries' portfolio. Last year, the company launched Kingfisher Radler, a blend of lemon juice and imported barley malt.
In July, Anheuser-Busch InBev launched -- Budweiser 0.0 -- in India, stating that it aims to make-up at least 20 per cent of global beer volume by 2025.
"Beer is a drink of moderation and as a leading brewer, we would like to offer our consumers choice," Ben Verhaert, President - South Asia, AB InBev, told IANS.
"Budweiser is the fastest growing premium brand in the country and the launch of Budweiser 0.0 will further enable the brand to be inclusive, as many people today either can not or choose not to consume alcohol."
Notably, a majority of India's adult population is estimated to refrain from consuming alcohol.
The planned investment of $5 billion announced by the company in 2012 is expected to be completed by 2020 for retail infrastructure creation, bottling plants and introduction of new products, amongst others.
Since its re-entry into India in 1993 till 2011, Coca-Cola invested $2 billion in the country. "We are on track with our investment commitments of $5 billion by 2020. That's on track," a senior executive with the beverages major's India arm told IANS.
Additionally, the company has committed an investment of $1.7 billion or more than Rs 11,000 crore towards creating a "Fruit Circular Economy" aiding the Indian agri-ecosystem for the next five years till 2023.
"This investments will help catalyse the entire fruit value chain helping take them from the grove to the glass," the executive said.
Apart from its planned investments, Coca-Cola India has initiated the next stage of its transformation into a "growth-oriented, consumer-centred, Total Beverage Company".
"As part of this journey, we continue to expand our beverages portfolio to provide more choices to our customers across our Indian and global portfolio," the executive said.
The company recently set up a new business venture division to incubate and scale-up new businesses.
"This new division is focused on broadening our beverages range so that our portfolio appeals and is available to wider parts of society," the executive said.
"One part of the strategy here is to look across Coca-Cola's global portfolio and bring brands to India that we think will resonate with the consumers here, thus offering them more choice," the executive added.
Consequently, the beverage major in India entered into new segments, like the niche but potentially high-volume non-alcoholic malt drinks market with its global brand, Barbican.
Other notable additions to its portfolio this year have been Rani Float and Powerade, both of which were brought to India from the company's global portfolio.
"Our 2020 plans include making both Rani Float and Powerade more widely available pan India," the executive said.
Besides, the company's India unit is also incubating its own brands, one of them being Aquarius Gluco-charge, which was launched about a year-ago across some parts of the country.
"Other incubations include experimenting in beverages that are more unique to India. Our aim is to be the preferred choice of beverage, no matter what your beverage preference is," the executive added.
Globally, Coca-Cola offers over 500 brands in more than 200 countries and territories.
In India, the company offers beverage brands like Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Zero, Diet Coke, Thums Up, Fanta, Fanta Green Mango, Limca, Sprite, Sprite Zero, VIO Flavoured Milk, Kinley and BURN energy drinks, amongst others.