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$5420 per share. Now, the reason that is an extraordinary price is because the current Twitter stock

price is well below that. The current Twitter stock price now is 5130. But until about five seconds

ago, it was way lower than that. We were talking in the past like six months, it's low was somewhere around 40 bucks, 39 bucks. Okay, and that was after it became clear that Musk wasn't actually going to buy Twitter, right? He sued to get out of the deal. There's a lot of talk that perhaps what he was actually doing was looking for an excuse to liquidate some of his Tesla stock. So if he actually liquidated some of his Tesla stock in order to, quote, quote, buy Twitter, and then he didn't end up buying Twitter, and then he just ended up paying some sort of SEC fine. He would still have been able to liquidate some of that Tesla stock without having tanked the Tesla stock, because everybody knew that he was doing so in order to buy Twitter. Bottom line is, now Elon Musk is saying that he is interested in buying Twitter again.

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