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Elon Musk's tweets reveal clues on new Twitter owner

A sign is pictured outside the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, October 26, 2022. [AP]

He may be good with rockets and electric cars, but don't turn to Elon Musk for public health predictions.

"Probably close to zero new cases in the US too by end of April," the world's richest man tweeted about Covid-19 in March 2020, just as the pandemic was ramping up.

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