As you know, Elon Musk's tweets are heard 'round the world.

So when he tweeted a poll Thursday night asking people about irony on social media, well, the internet was just so confused.

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"Do want irony on social media?" Elon asked, and the responses were ... interesting.

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Maybe he's trying to tell us something?

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But it's perhaps related to this earlier, somewhat cryptic tweet on Thursday. But if so, it took him 8 hours to devise that poll, so ...

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We're clutching at straws here, but possibly this whole thing has something to do with the responses he got to a global warming joke he tossed out into the Twitterverse Tuesday.

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Eh, who knows. Maybe Musk just needs some bacon.

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