© Reuters. In this illustration taken on April 28, 2022, Elon Musk’s Twitter profile can be seen on the printed Twitter logo on a smartphone. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
(Reuters) – Elon Musk has secured $7.14 billion in funding from a group of investors, including Oracle Corporation (NYSE ? co-founder Larry Ellison and Sequoia Capital for its $44 billion acquisition twitter company (NYSE: ), according to a filing.
Here’s a timeline of developments, including some of Musk’s tweets that spell out his views on business and free speech:
Company filing date tweets and comments
April 27, 2022 “Twitter DMs should have end-to-end encryption, e.g.
signal, so no one can snoop or hack into your information,” Musk
Said in a tweet https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519469891455234048
April 27, 2022 “If Twitter is to earn the public’s trust, it must
Political neutrality, which actually amounts to disturbing
Far right and far left,” Musk tweeted: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519415674111672325
April 25, 2022 “I want even the people I hate the most to stay on Twitter,
Because that’s what free speech is about,” Musk said in a statement.
Twitter https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518623997054918657
April 25, 2022 “Freedom of speech is the foundation of operations
Democracy, and Twitter is the digital public square,
Questions that are critical to the future of humanity are being debated,” Musk said.
Twitter https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518677066325053441?t=uZkgCtHZTcwmuGPkh3loDQ&s=19
after the agreement is published. “I also want to do
Twitter is better than ever by improving products with new ones
function to make the algorithm open source increase
Trust, beat spammers and verify all
Humanity. »
April 21, 2022 “If our Twitter auction is successful, we will beat spam bots
Or die trying! Musk tweeted https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517215066550116354.
“And verify all real humans,” he added.
April 14, 2022 “Taking Twitter private for $54.20 should be the most
shareholders, not the board,” Musk asked https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1514698036760530945
In a Twitter poll, 83.5% of respondents
Say yes.
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said that as
April 14, 2022 From Twitter’s major shareholder, he declined
Musk’s acquisition
April 14, 2022 “However, since I made the investment, I now realize that
Businesses will not prosper or serve this society
Imperative in its current form.twitter must be
became a private company,” Musk said in a filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000110465922045641/tm2212748d1_sc13da.htm
April 14, 2022 “My offer is my best and last offer, if not
Accept, I should reconsider my position
shareholders,” Musk added in the filing.
April 14, 2022 “Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unblock it,”
Musk said in the document
On April 14, 2022, Musk tweeted https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1514564966564651008
Says “I made an offer” with a link to the company
deposit
On April 12, 2022, Musk was sued by former Twitter shareholders who claimed
They missed the latest share price rally
Because he waited too long to disclose his 9.2% stake
social media company
On April 10, 2022, Musk asked his Twitter followers if
The company’s headquarters in San Francisco should be
turned into a homeless shelter.This tweet is now
delete. Amazon.com founder (Nasdaq ? Jeff Bezos backs Musk’s
idea
April 10, 2022 Twitter CEO Agrawal shared a note https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1513354622466867201
Tweeting that Musk rejected the company’s offer
join its board.Musk deleted the tweet
Reply with an emoji
face to face
On April 10, 2022, Musk launched a poll asking whether the “w” should be removed from the
Twitter’s name, leaving two voting options, “yes” and “yes”
certainly.he also deleted
April 9, 2022 Musk tweets about Twitter’s business model
Before deleting: “And no ads. The power of commerce
Dictation policy greatly enhanced if Twitter relies
Survive on Advertising Money »
On April 9, 2022, Musk tweeted https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1512946176244473863,
“Anyone who signs up for Twitter Blue (i.e. pays
$3/month) should receive an authentication checkmark “About
Its subscription service offers “exclusive access to
Premium features” once a month. He later deleted
tweets
April 5, 2022, Agrawal tweeted https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1511320953598357505?s=21&t=Is9i_R_hPKzFuUV5VhxUZQ
Musk was named to Twitter’s board of directors. “He is both
Passionate believer and strong critic of service
This is exactly what we need
@Twitter, in the room, let’s
Long term,” the follow-up tweet said.
April 5, 2022 Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey welcomes Musk to Twitter’s board
In the tweet https://twitter.com/jack/status/1511329369473564677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1511329369473564677%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F. %2Fmagazines%2Fpanache%2Fto-celebrate-memelord-elon-musks-twitter-board-entry-netizens-inonder-internet-de-blagues%2Farticleshow%2F90687616.cms,
Added, “Both Parag and Elon lead with heart,
They’re going to be an amazing team”
On April 4, 2022, Musk posted a poll on Twitter asking users if they wanted a
Edit button. “Do you want an edit button? Musk asked
In response to this tweet, Agrawal said
The consequences of the vote will be significant. “Please vote
Be careful,” he tweeted.
April 4, 2022, in his first tweet after disclosing his stake
Twitter, he said, “Oh, hi, haha”
On March 26, 2022, Musk said Twitter does not respect free speech
Principles fundamentally undermine democracy and ask whether
need a new platform