From suggesting he might be assassinated to joking that a recreational drug be put back in Coca-Cola, these were the most liked posts by the world’s richest man and regular tweeter turned Twitter owner — Elon Musk.
2022 has been big for Twitter and one of its most well-known users, Elon Musk, who added the social media platform to his portfolio of companies this year.Musk first started acquiring shares in Twitter in January 2022, gradually increasing his stake to become the company’s biggest shareholder in the months after that.
In mid-April 2022, he offered to buy the entire company at $54.20 per share, which meant he would have to shell out $44 billion to take Twitter private. Musk then seemingly appeared to backtrack on his offer or tried to push the price down, claiming that Twitter was hiding how severe its spam bot problem was, which inflated its subscriber numbers.After several months of filings and counter-filings by Twitter and Musk’s legal teams, he eventually agreed to buy the company for the agreed-upon $44 billion.Twitter is among the less interesting of Musk’s ventures when it comes to cutting-edge tech.
Only a few weeks after taking over, Musk has fired thousands of employees, scrapped remote working, and cut down on expenses like free lunches. He has also pushed Twitter staff to revamp the Blue subscription service and develop new features to make the platform generate more revenue outside of advertising.
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