How Elon Mask Become the owner of Twitter

A day by day update

“Worried about de facto bias in the Twitter algorithm having a major effect on public; Twitter algorithm should be open source,” Musk tweeted on March 24.

“Worried about de facto bias in the Twitter algorithm having a major effect on public; Twitter algorithm should be open source,” Musk tweeted on March 24.

“Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?” Musk asked his Twitter followers in a poll posted on March 25.

“Is a new platform needed?” Musk asked in a tweet on March 26. “Am giving serious thought to this.”

April 4: Musk’s stake becomes public, and he’s invited to join Twitter’s board

April 5: Musk becomes an active investor

April 9: Musk rejects the board seat

April 14: Musk offers to buy the whole company

April 15: Twitter adopts ‘poison pill’ to ward off Musk takeover

April 16: ‘Twitter’s board owns almost no shares’

April 21: Musk lines up $46.5 billion in funding

April 25: Twitter yields to Musk, agrees to offer

May 6: Plans for Twitter revealed

May 10: Trump ban to be lifted

May 12: Hiring freeze goes into effect and key executives depart

May 13: Twitter deal on hold, Musk said

May 16: Musk and Agrawal have it out... on Twitter

May 17: Musk threatens to pull out

July 8: Musk backs out of deal citing “spam bots”

July 12: Twitter sues Musk

September 29: Texts reveal Musk’s inner circle

October 4: Musk revives $44 billion takeover bid

October 28: Taken over Twitter with his full stake