American billionaire Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $41.39 billion, and Twitter's stock jumped 12% in pre-market trading today, Thursday, after Musk's takeover offer.
According to Arabiya Net, it had announced earlier this month that it had acquired a 9.2% stake in Twitter's capital, becoming the company's largest shareholder. In the document he sent to the Stock Exchange, he clarified that his participation is negative, which means that he does not intend to influence major strategic decisions on Twitter.
Musk is very active on Twitter, as he posts tweets almost daily to his more than 80 million followers.
Since announcing his acquisition of a stake in the social network, Musk has not stopped provoking. In particular, he published a poll on his account in which he asked Twitter users if they would like the network to add an edit button to correct any tweet after it has been published. Approximately 4.4 million accounts participated in the vote, and nearly 73% of them answered yes.
The platform later announced that it is testing this feature that many users have been asking for for years.
On Saturday, Musk asked in his own way whether the social network was on the verge of death, due to the presence of many accounts with millions of followers, but they were not active.
The Washington Post reported that many employees expressed concern about Musk joining Twitter, especially considering that the values of this richest man in the world do not correspond to the professional culture of this social network
