Elon Musk urges his followers to vote for Republicans

On the eve of midterm elections in the United States, Twitter owner Elon Musk has told his more than 100 million followers on the social media platform to vote for Republicans.

Musk has urged Americans to elect a Republican Congress to counterbalance Joe Biden's Democrats.

It is first time in the United States that a major social media CEO has explicitly taken a side in the political arena.