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e. Elon Reeve Musk FRS (/ ˈiːlɒn /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and investor known for his key roles in the space company SpaceX and the automotive company Tesla, Inc. Other involvements include ownership of X Corp., the company that operates the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), and his role in the founding of ...
t. e. 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.
Twitter under Elon Musk. Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter in October 2022; Musk acted as CEO of Twitter until June 2023 when he was succeeded by Linda Yaccarino. In a move that, despite Yaccarino's accession, was widely attributed to Musk, [ 1 ][ 2 ] Twitter was rebranded to X on July 23, 2023, [ 3 ] and its domain name changed ...
The service is owned by the American company X Corp., which was established to succeed the prior owner Twitter, Inc. in March 2023 following the October 2022 acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk for US$44 billion. Musk stated that his goal with the acquisition was to promote free speech on the platform.
On 30 August 2024, Brazil's Supreme Federal Court judge Alexandre de Moraes imposed a block of Twitter (officially known as X) in Brazil. This occurred after the social network's chairman Elon Musk refused to appoint a legal representative in the country, which led Moraes to freeze Starlink's financial assets and impose fines for non-compliance.
The Twitter Files are a series of releases of select internal Twitter, Inc. documents published from December 2022 through March 2023 on Twitter. CEO Elon Musk gave the documents to journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Lee Fang, and authors Michael Shellenberger, David Zweig and Alex Berenson shortly after he acquired Twitter on October 27, 2022.
Elon Musk's letter to terminate the purchase of Twitter on July 8, 2022, was addressed to Gadde, as Twitter’s Chief Legal Officer. [24] [25] She was fired for cause after completion of the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk on October 27, 2022, [6] [26] alongside at least three other Twitter executives, including the CEO. [7]
List of most-followed Twitter accounts. This list contains the top 50 accounts with the most followers on the social media platform Twitter, officially known as X. Notable figures such as Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Cristiano Ronaldo, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Katy Perry and Narendra Modi are at the top of the list, each with over 100 million ...