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Polymarket lists second Musk tweet-count market after 19% activity jump on prior contract

Published Jun 5, 2026 Updated 2d ago

Polymarket is running a market on the number of tweets Elon Musk will post during the week of June 9-16, 2026. The market was live as of June 6. Earlier, a separate Musk tweet-count market covering May 29 to June 5 registered a 19% surge in activity, though specific price levels and volume figures were not disclosed. The contract offerings add to a cluster of Musk-themed prediction markets across venues in recent days. Neither source reported open interest or liquidity depth for the current or prior tweet-count contracts. The activity comes as Polymarket has drawn institutional market-maker interest and faced scrutiny over its marketing practices.

Why this matters?

The lack of disclosed volume or open interest on either Musk tweet-count contract means traders have no way to distinguish liquid conviction from novelty-driven noise. Any firm sizing positions on Polymarket's media-event markets must build its own liquidity assessment or trade blind.

The bigger picture

Extends Polymarket's run of high-profile media-trading experiments after Kalshi and Polymarket already priced Musk's trillionaire odds and Wintermute linked the two venues for cross-platform arbitrage.

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