Well..considering you followed me ^^ and your handle is easy enough to recognize.
It's just pathetic over there and hard to refute the garbage with so little text. I understand your cause but they're worse than children, they love spiegels presentation. Give them some facts to chew on and they just post the same negative garbage again. ( "Tesla only sold 2000 cars this month LOL")
I can't believe more than 10% of the people knowing about Tesla dislike the company. That negative group though....they're a vocal bunch. I doubt they've turned a lot of people against the company, but do suppose they could at least temporarily keep investors away.
Take it as a challenge: "$TSLA ships intercontinental before intracontinental every qtr; early qtr USA sales irrelevant. Check qtr-qtr yoy instead." That's 123 characters, enough for 17 characters, or about 2 or 3 twitter handles, you're responding to.
You can get even more creative:
"$TSLA ships intercontinental first every qtr; early qtr USA sales irrelevant. Also, retools factory beginning of qtrs; some date movements." 139 characters
"$TSLA ships intercontinental first every qtr; early qtr USA sales irrelevant. Also, retools factory beginning of qtrs" 117 characters, can respond to 2-3 handles
"$TSLA ships intercontinental first every qtr; early qtr USA sales irrelevant, & retools factory begin of most qtrs" 114 characters -- you could respond to 26 characters worth of handles.
By crafting carefully, you can get across some messages, such as my last one above:
* Bogus citing of early quarter US sales
* Bogus thought that retooling = ineptitude of Tesla (since you say "most qtrs" i.e., they've been succeeding at doing it regularly)
* It is simple and sweet
You can work in background stats if you have stats that are relevant, like "Q4 sold out ~26K cars", if you actually have that info. Include a stat like that plus a link to the source, and Twitter will give you a pretty short URL character penalty.