Guess who really moved straight to the end and bought Twitter for $44B?
Before Elon bought Twitter: 83M followers.
After Elon bought Twitter: 90M followers and counting.
He gains followers like I gain weight.
“Elon Musk is the eighth-most followed Twitter account, ranking behind Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, and other celebs. (Barack Obama is №1.)”
Elon has tweeted more than 17,300 times, and averages 125,180 likes per tweet, according to Socialtracker.
He may not be the CEO of Twitter but he is definitely the King.
Nobody alive deploys tweets and sass like he does on Twitter.
He challenged Putin to single combat.
He single-handedly pumped Dogecoin back to relevancy.
He wanted to buy Coco-cola and put cocaine back in it.
He joked about buying Twitter.
And he really did.
Elon is worth around $250B (give or take, the stock market is tempermental).
He really managed to put together $44B to buy out Twitter entirely.
Jokes, memes and ego aside, if that isn’t impressive, to see a man do what he said he would, albeit in his own snazzy way, I really don’t know what is.
What amazes me most is that he called it exactly the way it played out.
He offered $54.20 per share.
Five 4:20, pun intended with the weed culture.
Ya know, the one he smoked so famously on Joe Rogan’s show?
He sent an open letter to the board saying how he has “moved straight to the end”.
He challenged the entire board, went full automatic on the haters and straight up rejected board seats and all the crap offered to him.
He moved straight to the end.
He did it.
Exactly how he said he would.
“Tesla CEO Elon Musk is infamous for using Twitter to tease and tease out various ideas he has about his business interests, cryptocurrency, politics and life in general, but today it looks like he’s making good on one of the biggest of his musings. Twitter has announced that it has accepted Musk’s offer to acquire the publicly traded company at $54.20/share, valuing the social media platform at $44 billion.”
I meant, come on.
The board didn’t even try to tweak the price by one cent?
I wrote before how this is Elon’s world and we are all just living in it.
How much truer can that get?
So golden question:
Why did Elon Musk buy Twitter?
A) To have his own social media/marketing company
B) To help Twitter become the de facto public town square of the internet
C) To make some money
D) Because he can
He already is the most popular, amazing, well-known celebrity on Twitter.
Period.
So option A is unlikely.
He may really be a proponent of free speech but I think option B is a very, very complicated matter to solve.
He would rather put the money back into Tesla to make more money, so option C is improbable.
Which leads me to conclude that option D is most reasonable.
Because it is there.
Once asked by a reporter why he wanted to climb Everest, George Mallory the mountaineer, famously replied, “Because it’s there.”
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