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Mar 28, 2024 · On November 9, CEO Elon Musk floated changes to Twitter’s system for verifying user accounts, including charging $8 per month for it.
Apr 29, 2022 · Updated 9:20 ET (13:20 GMT) April 29, 2022. For years, Elon Musk has been using Twitter to publicly share his opinions about the social media platform he’s now struck a deal to buy.
Nov 11, 2022 · SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk had a demand. On Oct. 28, hours after completing his $44 billion buyout of Twitter the night before, Mr. Musk gathered several human-resource executives in a “war...
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On April 5, Musk discloses he has purchased more than 9% of Twitter's shares on the open market. At first, he is offered a board seat. That plan quickly falls through — and Twitter decides to adopt a poison-pill strategyto fend off a hostile takeover from Musk. Musk subsequently makes an offer to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share, or about $44 billion...
On May 13, Musk tweets he is putting the deal to acquire Twitter "temporarily on hold" pending additional information about the volume of fake and spam accounts on the platform. That's despite regular disclosures by Twitter stretching back years featuring its estimates that less than 5% of the accounts on the site were fraudulent. Although Musk sub...
Unable to come to an agreement over the bots issue, Twitter sues Musk in Delaware court to enforce the $44 billion deal. “Musk’s conduct simply confirms that he wants to escape the binding contract he freely signed, and to damage Twitter in the process,” the company says. Musk ultimately countersues, once again accusing Twitter of fraud — allegatio...
As the trial approaches and markets increasingly predict a verdict in favor of Twitter, Musk says he will resubmit his bid to acquire the company for $54.20 if Twitter agrees to head off a trial. Twitter declines to do so, but Judge McCormick decides to give the two sides until the end of the month to hammer out an agreement. As the deal nears, The...
Musk's arrival is notably hailed by libertarians and right-leaning pundits. Within 48 hours of taking over, Musk tweets, then deletes, an unfounded, anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theory about the Paul Pelosi attack. A week after Musk’s takeover, far-right figures begin to test Twitter’s boundaries for anti-LGBTQ speech. Despite stating that he had not made...
Nov 8, 2022 · 1:45. The claim: An outgoing Twitter employee suspended Elon Musk's account. Thousands of Twitter workers were laid off in early November after Elon Musk took over the company,...
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Nov 6, 2022 · Updated Nov 6, 2022, 3:58 PM PST. Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images. Elon Musk’s Twitter has a new rule for everyone with an account on Twitter to follow, as he...
Nov 8, 2022 · Musk’s Twitter takeover is like so many things in American life in 2022: It is both dumb and consequential. Twitter, despite its relatively small size, has disproportionate importance in...
