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What stops one of the world's richest men from buying a company he covets? Explaining poison pills, hostile takeovers, white knights and other terms and concepts. Buying Twitter is complicated.
On July 23, 2023, Musk announced X's launch, which would replace Twitter, which started when the X.com domain (formerly associated with PayPal) began redirecting to Twitter; [3] the logo was changed from the bird to the X the next day, [37] and the platform's official main and associated accounts also began using the letter X within their handles. [38]
The business magnate Elon Musk initiated an acquisition of American social media company Twitter, Inc. on April 14, 2022, and concluded it on October 27, 2022. Musk had begun buying shares of the company in January 2022, becoming its largest shareholder by April with a 9.1 percent ownership stake.
John Heilemann talks with Andrew Ross Sorkin, co-anchor of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” columnist and assistant editor at the New York Times and founder and editor-at-large of the paper’s ...
Elon Musk has described owning Twitter as "quite painful" in a surprise interview with the BBC. The billionaire CEO bought the social media site in 2022 for $44bn after initially backing out of ...
Due to declining usage, product realignment, and high maintenance costs the service was discontinued on March 31, 2021. [126] However, past Periscope videos can still be watched via Twitter and most of its core features are now incorporated into the app. [ 127 ]
The Tesla chief has already spoken of some of his plans for the microblogging site in the wake of his takeover announcement.
Research on using Twitter in education has been conducted by Dr. Reynol Junco and his colleagues. Using a controlled experimental design with random assignment, they found that classroom use of Twitter in specific ways such as continuing course discussions outside of class led to significant increases in student engagement and grades for all of their courses. [15]