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Twitter's board publicly and unanimously accepted the buyout offer for $44 billion, and Twitter was to become a private company once the transaction was completed sometime in 2022. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Negotiations with Musk were led by the board's transaction committee, composed of Taylor, Martha Lane Fox , and Patrick Pichette . [ 42 ]
Renaming Tweetie to Twitter for iPhone, Twitter made the client free after acquiring Atebits. Fast Company called Tweetie "one of the best (if not the best) mobile Twitter app". [13] [16] 5 April 23, 2010: Cloudhopper Mobile messaging Cloudhopper was a Seattle-based mobile messaging startup founded by Joe Lauer in 2008. [17]
On April 25, 2022, Twitter agreed to a $44 billion buyout by Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, one of the biggest deals to turn a company private. [11] [12] On July 8, Musk terminated the deal. [13] Twitter's shares fell, [14] leading company officials to sue Musk in Delaware's Court of Chancery on July 12. [15]
The purchase price represents a 38% premium over Twitter’s closing stock price on April 1, 2022, which was the last trading day before Musk disclosed his approximately 9% stake in Twitter ...
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The Twitter board seems to have changed its mind following Musk's disclosure he had secured $46.5 billion in financing for the bid. The two sides met on Sunday, April 24, just 10 days after Musk ...
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 ...
Elon Musk’s tumultuous $44 billion bid to buy Twitter is on the verge of collapse — after the Tesla CEO sent a letter to Twitter's board saying he is terminating the acquisition. Twitter did ...