Why did Elon Musk buy Twitter?
Elon Musk buys Twitter. After paying 44 billion dollars he is the new owner of twitter.
Why did Elon Musk buy Twitter? Well, why take a seat when you can have the entire building? That idea, expressed very well by The Next Web site, possibly reflects Elon Musk’s mentality regarding Twitter. Instead of being the main shareholder, he prefers to have full control and turn it into a place for freedom of expression, as he himself assured .
Earlier this month, there was a stir on Twitter after it was revealed that Musk bought 9.2% of Twitter shares. With that he had become its main shareholder.
The interesting thing happened afterwards.
As the largest shareholder, and to prevent the richest man in the world from buying more shares, according to most experts, the company offered him a seat on the board .
Musk seemed to agree to accept the offer. He then turned her down before making an entirely different offer: to buy Twitter outright .
After a few days of negotiations, Twitter accepted Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company for $44 billion . Musk bought the company for $54.20 a share, the same price mentioned in his initial offer on April 14, according to The Verge .
What will happen now that Elon Musk owns Twitter?
Now that Musk owns Twitter, users are expecting some changes.
For example, weeks ago Elon Musk did a survey to find out if people would like to have a button to edit a tweet.
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But these changes go beyond improvements to the blue bird interface. Important changes are expected.
“Freedom of expression is the foundation of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital public square where issues vital to the future of humanity are debated ,” Musk said. “I also want Twitter to be better than ever by improving the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating spam bots, and authenticating all humans. Twitter has enormous potential . I look forward to working with the company. and the user community to unlock it”, collects the fortune.com site .
The fortune site adds:
But critics of Musk point out that the businessman has little tolerance for speech that is not flattering to him or his companies. And both Tesla and SpaceX have a history of punishing people who publicly criticize a company practice or project .
What do you think?
