Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44 billion

It’s official. american businessman Elon Musk has bought Twitter for $44 billion after the company has accepted the billionaire’s offer.

While he was negotiating the purchase, Musk himself declared that hopes his “detractors” stay on Twitteralluding to the negotiations that it is holding for the purchase of the social network and that may soon lead to an agreement.

“I hope that even my worst detractors continue on Twitter, because that is what freedom of expression means,” said the founder of Tesla and the richest man in the world.

After Musk’s last comment, the price rose to 5.6%. The agreement, which seems imminent, has also generated movements in the dogecoin cryptocurrency, one of Musk’s favorites, which rises 15%, and in the “spac” Digital World Acquisition Corporation, related to the social network of former President Donald Trump, which falls by 15%. Twitter again reconsidered yesterday the offer of 43,000 million dollars raised by the businessman after he announced that he has 46,500 million in financing to carry out that operation, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The founder of Tesla, owner of more than 9% of the shareholding of Twitter, launched on April 14 an offer of 43,000 million for the company at a rate of 54.20 dollars per title, before which the firm took a measure to buying time against a potential hostile purchase.