Elon Musk has acquired Twitter

Twitter has agreed to be acquired by Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX. The Board recognized an offer of $54.20 for every share, an total order value of about $44 billion. This follows a day of rumors that the bid would be effective just after Musk managed to put collectively funding from a range of sources such as Morgan Stanley Financial institution.

This represents a rapidly-paced takeover next Musk’s determination to change down a seat on the Twitter board earlier this thirty day period. Musk himself has far more than 80 million followers on the system. He has built “flexibility of speech” his most important declared determination for buying the platform, although he has also claimed the business has “tremendous likely.”

Why we treatment. It is hold out-and-see time for now. Will Musk aid Twitter notice its likely by applying his shown organization acumen, or are we on the brink of much more social and political theater from somebody who has experienced a series of operate-ins with the system as an common user? Individuals will also speculate about the possible restoration of controversially suspended or closed accounts like that of previous President Trump.

Answers to these queries could possibly enable us to know if Twitter will keep on to be a valuable advertising channel — or even strengthen. But it is an interesting experiment to set command of so a lot U.S. social media successfully in the palms of two adult men: Zuckerberg at Meta and now Musk at Twitter.

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