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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.
Twitter paid for the acquisition using roughly $5 million of stock, and Mixer Lab employees were invited to become Twitter employees. [10] [11] [12] 4 April 9, 2010: Atebits Tweetie US: Mobile Twitter app (iOS) Atebits was a company that made Tweetie, a Twitter client that supported the iOS and macOS platforms. [13]
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.
And on April 11, Twitter merged with X corp. another tech company founded by Musk, meaning that Twitter as an independent company "no longer exists." Alexandra Garfinkle contributed to this story. —
The SEC alleged that Musk violated federal securities laws when he amassed more than $500 million in shares of Twitter -- later renamed X -- without properly disclosing his stake in the company ...
Musk’s security company billed Tesla $2.4 million in 2023 and another $500,000 through February 2024 for Musk’s own protection, which was only a portion of the total cost of his security ...
Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n / EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman known for his key roles in Tesla, Inc., SpaceX, and Twitter (which he rebranded as X). Since 2025, he has been a senior advisor to United States president Donald Trump and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The world's richest man now runs Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX alongside two smaller start-ups, Neuralink and The Boring Company. Elon Musk now owns Twitter. Here are the busy billionaire's 4 other ...