Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter.
The billionaire’s mega-billionaire’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter — after a six-month saga during which Musk tried to back out of the agreement and Twitter sued to force his purchase — officially closed Thursday, according to multiple reports. The world’s richest individual promptly fired several senior executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal; CFO Nej Segal Vijaya Jade, Head of Legal, Policy, Trust and Safety at Twitter; and General Counsel Sean Edgett, The New York Times mentioned.
Twitter representatives did not respond to requests for comment. Musk, who currently has more than 110 million followers on Twitter, did not comment on the closing of the deal.
In the past two days, he visited the company’s San Francisco offices in the past two days and changed his Twitter bio to “Chief Twit” and set his location as “Twitter HQ.” On Wednesday, he posted a video of him walking inside the building holding a sink. “Twitter HQ entry – let this sink in!” he is chirp. On Thursday, he retweet A picture of him in a cafe at Twitter headquarters.
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