American entrepreneur Elon Musk has completed its acquisition of social media giant Twitter.


In the future, attention will be paid to how the huge SNS Twitter, which is used by more than 200 million people a day around the world, will change under Mr. Musk.

Agrawal and other executives ``already fired''

According to a document released by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on the 28th, Elon Musk, CEO of an American electric car maker and entrepreneur, completed the acquisition of social media giant Twitter on the 27th.



The total purchase price is 44 billion dollars, or approximately 6.4 trillion yen in Japanese yen.



With the acquisition, Twitter is expected to be delisted on the 8th of next month.



Regarding the acquisition, after the announcement of the acquisition in April this year, Mr. Mask unilaterally withdrew the agreed acquisition plan, and Twitter filed a lawsuit seeking the implementation of the acquisition. I've been through a lot.



Several media outlets have reported that Mr. Mask has already dismissed executives such as Twitter's CEO Agrawal. Attention is being paid to whether this will change.

Musk posts 'Birds are free'

Mr. Musk posted on his Twitter on the 27th that "birds are free".



Twitter has a blue bird mark as the company's logo, and this post is taken by Mr. Musk as revealing the completion of the acquisition of Twitter.



Musk also posted a document on his Twitter account titled "To Advertisers" on the 27th.



Among them, Mr. Mask said, "SNS amplifies the voices of the extreme right and the extreme left, creating further hatred, and the danger of dividing society is increasing. I have encouraged extreme arguments because I believe that it will make money, but this will lose the opportunity for dialogue."



After that, he explained that he bought Twitter not because it was easy or because he wanted to make money, but because it was important to have a place where people could discuss things in a healthy way.

How the Twitter Acquisition Completed

On April 14th, Musk's proposed acquisition of Twitter was revealed.



The huge amount of the acquisition proposal, totaling more than 43 billion yen, which greatly exceeds the value of Twitter, was received with surprise around the world.



Initially, Twitter decided to introduce a defensive measure called "poison pill" to reduce the ratio of voting rights of hostile acquirers in an attempt to block the takeover, but could not find a support partner with conditions that exceeded Mr. Mask's proposal. , on April 25, accepted a takeover offer.



However, Musk later claimed that the number of fake Twitter accounts involved in the company's valuation was actually higher than the company said.



For this reason, on July 8, Twitter was unilaterally notified that it would withdraw from the acquisition agreement, and Twitter had developed into a lawsuit seeking the implementation of the acquisition in a local court.



Mr. Musk re-proposed the acquisition before the mid-October when the trial began, while the US media reported that Mr. Musk was unlikely to win in the trial over the implementation of the acquisition.



The court has ordered Musk to complete the acquisition by the 28th of this month if he wants to avoid further litigation.



According to this order, Mr. Mask raised the necessary funds for the acquisition and completed the acquisition procedure on the 27th.