Elon Muskowner of Tesla and SpaceX, took this Thursday control of the social network Twitter after concluding his delayed purchase of the company for $ 44,000 million, according to several articles in the American trade press.
“the bird is free“The billionaire tweeted after midnight in Argentina. In less than two hours the publication accumulated more than 500,000 likes, nearly 100,000 retweets and 43,000 comments.
After months of a series of comings and goings, the richest man in the world fired the company’s chief executive officer, Parag Agrawal, with immediate effectand two other senior executives, the Washington Post reported.
The first and decisive decision is known hours after the tycoon himself posted a video in which he is seen entering the Twitter office smiling with a sink in his hand, implying that the purchase of the social network had come to fruition.
In his account on that platform, the billionaire wrote “Entring Twitter headquarters, take it inside!”, A message that included the word “lavamanos” in English, which he humorously referred to as he entered the building.
The controversial explanation for the purchase of the social network
“The reason I bought Twitter is because it is important that the future of civilization has it a common digital public squarewhere a wide range of beliefs can be discussed in a healthy way, without resorting to violence, “explained the billionaire.
He added: “Currently there is a great danger in which social networks divide echo chambers on the far right and far left that generate more hatred and divide our society ”.
Musk’s $ 44 billion deal to take over the social network faced a deadline that expired on Friday. Although there was no need to go to the deadline and the transaction was completed earlier.
The tycoon also changed his Twitter profile description to “main tweet”, and its location at the headquarters, which is headquartered in San Francisco.
“Enter Twitter HQ – let it sink!” Musk tweeted, playing a pun on “sink” (of which “lavamanos” is one of the many meanings of him), which roughly translates to: “Going into Twitter HQ, take note!” ‘
the comings and goings
Musk agreed last April to take over Twitter for about $ 44 billion. but then he backed offwhich led the company to denounce him to force him to respect the agreement.
While the trial was being prepared, Tesla’s boss tried to negotiate a price cut on the deal, but Twitter did not agree and, finally, with the judicial process already very close, Musk gave up and announced that it had agreed to close the transaction on the original terms.
It happened in early October and since then the two sides have been trying to work out all the details, which has finally been completed in the last few hours.
With information from AFP
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Source: Clarin
