Elon Musk Completes Twitter Acquisition, Fires CEO, CFO, and Legal Adviser

As the world’s richest man, Elon Musk completed Twitter’s $44 billion takeover last night, he immediately fired an executive director reported to have spearheaded Donald Trump’s suspension on Twitter.

Sources revealed that Elon Musk accused Chief Executive Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Ned Segal, and a few other top members of the microblogging platform of misleading him over the number of bots and fake accounts on the platform. 

It will be recalled that Musk had initially backed out of the acquisition deal after he alleged misrepresentation of fake accounts. 

This, therefore, led to a legal battle between Musk and Twitter Inc.

After the acquisition was completed late Thursday, Musk who is the CEO of electric vehicle manufacturing company, Tesla tweeted “The bird is freed”, subtly referring to the Twitter Logo.

With the complete takeover of Twitter, analysts and observers have expressed their expectation to see a change in the operational modality of the company. 

Similarly, the new owner, Elon Musk has also mum some changes which include the reactivation of the Former U.S President’s account which was suspended for inflammatory tweets. 

Twitter had accused Donald Trump of instigating violence with his tweet which led to the attack on U.S Capitol. 

Investors King had earlier reported that Elon Musk intends to take a number of measures which include the reactivation of Donald Trump’s Twitter account to turn the fortune of the company around. 

Before the suspension, the former president has one of the most engaging Twitter handles on the platform. 

Meanwhile, Elon Musk has set out a very ambitious transformation for his new company ‘Twitter”. He indicated that he will transform the platform into a “super app” which offers several things from money transfer to shopping and ride-hailing. 

Already, the social media giant is reportedly planning to integrate a cryptocurrency wallet that will support both the deposit and withdrawal of digital assets. 

In addition, Twitter also enables Bitcoin wallet address which allows Twitter users to attach their Bitcoin address to their profile.