The @henrikfisker account used by the Danish car designer and CEO of Fisker Inc. disappeared shortly after Twitter announced that it was accepting a $ 44 billion acquisition by Elon Musk. In a tweet Monday, Henrik Fisker said his 86,000 followers should search for him on Instagram for future updates, without giving further details. Shortly afterwards, his Twitter account returned an error message saying “This account no longer exists” – still valid at the time of writing. Fisker did not explicitly say whether he deactivated or deleted his Twitter account, but in an Instagram post on April 26, gave more details about the move. “I believe in 100% freedom of speech. But I do not want my freedom of speech to be actively managed or controlled by a competitor. And I do not want a competitor to determine how my followers experience Fisker as we grow our company.” Nevertheless, Fisker Inc’s Twitter account, @fiskerinc, is still available on the platform. has about 43,500 followers. Looking at the comments on Fisker’s Instagram post (and some of his previous posts), most of his followers seem to disagree with the move. Several of those who claimed to be Fisker’s investors described the move as childish and said they could not understand how Fisker could abandon a platform that gives him and the company significant exposure. Elon Musk and Henrik Fisher have been in a difficult relationship for more than a decade. The designer entered into an agreement with Tesla in 2007 to assist in the early design of the Model S. He left the EV launch shortly afterwards to develop the Fisker Karma hybrid sports sedan. This led to a lawsuit by Tesla for alleged theft of confidential information. Henrik Fisker eventually won the case in arbitration. Fisker Automotive, the company he founded in 2007, went bankrupt in 2013. Its assets — except for the Fisker logo and trademarks — were acquired by the Wanxiang Group of China in 2014. The new owner renamed Karma Automotive and continued to use the assets acquired by Fisker. With minor changes, Henrik Fisker’s design is still on the market today as the Karma GS-6. In 2016, Henrik Fisker started another electric vehicle company called Fisker Inc, which plans to start production of its first model, the Ocean SUV, in November 2022.
