Elon Musk (probably) buys Twitter
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a long and twisting road: six months of ‘on again off again’, after Elon Musk made an offer to buy Twitter, only to back out a few months later. Two weeks before Musk and the social media company were set to face off in court to decide this, the world’s richest man changed his mind again and agreed to go ahead with his original offer after all. So, is this the end of the saga? Or just the first step of a much bigger plan?
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| 0:38.5 | It's the kind of story that can give you whiplash. |
| 0:43.2 | It all started last spring. |
| 0:44.8 | Oh my breaking news, Elon Musk offering to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share. |
| 0:52.0 | This morning's announcement came just days after he bought more than 9% of the social media |
| 0:56.9 | platform and then back out of an offer to join Twitter's board of directors. |
| 1:02.0 | We said what's he going to do now? |
| 1:03.5 | Go home or go big and we now know he's going to go big. |
| 1:07.6 | Now the board has come out and they say that they've reached a deal. |
| 1:11.0 | This is classic Elon Musk, I mean everyone was skeptical that he could pull this off. |
| 1:14.8 | He is being serious and now they have a deal. |
| 1:20.2 | Not so fast, just three months later. |
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