How Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover Plans Shook Wall Street And Social Media

Elon Musk is known for using Twitter to hype everything from colonizing Mars to Tesla’s autopilot features. Now, he’s attempting to buy the underperforming social media network for $44 billion. The deal faces several obstacles, though. Musk now wants Twitter can prove a certain number of its users aren’t bots, and there’s the risk that the deal’s financing scheme falls apart. Here’s how Musk’s bid for Twitter came together, how the social media company could change under his watch, and how the deal could still fall through.

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How Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover Plans Shook Wall Street And Social Media

[frogt]

People don’t even work here and they are crying about it. 😂 the nature of the markets can take it down all by itself. If you can’t live without social media you have a sad life ahead of you.

[Bud-Creekmore]

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[esport]

Twitter is getting more and more coverage - keep going Elon

[supaavtr]

Which ever way you look it, musk has put a spot like on how extremely biased large social media companies are.
Even if the deal doesn't go through, people will have major questions about how the social media companies are ran and how truthful the information they put out is

[alrxandersmiths]

I love how Twitter is about attracting adds not users

[MrUltraworld]

I find it interesting that Elon puts the brakes on Twitter and the sexual misconduct charge follows a week later.

[kellyk]

He never fully intended to purchase Twitter, he was just bored and wanted to play around.

[gaileickhoff]

I read about a man in his 50s that started investing in stocks then retired in 2years with over $6million, that right there is my utmost goal and I'd really appreciate clues and tips on how to reach this goal within 5years

[XOPOIIIO]

Freedom of speech is extremely important. It's more important than all the money Twitter could ever bring.

[NeilHaran]

Put the 44 billion into the boring company. That has much more value than Twitter ever will have.

[theOrkinMan]

I don't think he ever intended on purchasing it he just wanted them to fix themselves

[francoisrossouw]

This feels like everything they had on elon in one video

[rromero]

Tweeter has no value only bots use that platform

[chessdad]

Each Twitter stockholder will receive a horse.

[jamesbernard]

<It's amazing how much we don't know Twitter and the business model. Everyone on Twitter is an expert in every area interest. The fact the bots are so high is amazing to

[xiaoranmo]

Keep the big picture in mind, Tesla stock price is down around 40% since 04.2020

[adiposerex]

I have never been happier that I don’t have membership in social media.

[auro]

how cnbc is worried what elon musk will write about cnbc in twitter and if elon musk will let cnbc use twitter for free

[oppamaclare]

Maybe he used it as an excuse to liquidate some of his overpriced Tesla stock.

[omarmartinez]

Twitter is a wrong move if your gonna buy a company that will be useless in 10 years then just buy two airlines with that price tag