{"id":1236945,"date":"2022-10-28T06:44:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T06:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/28\/watch-elon-musk-completes-r790-billion-twitter-takeover\/"},"modified":"2022-10-28T06:44:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T06:44:54","slug":"watch-elon-musk-completes-r790-billion-twitter-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/28\/watch-elon-musk-completes-r790-billion-twitter-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Elon Musk completes R790 billion Twitter takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-prod.iol.co.za\/16x9\/800?source=https:\/\/xlibris.public.prod.oc.inl.infomaker.io:8443\/opencontent\/objects\/78419785-56b6-5c10-9e5c-d21c4524d209\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk has completed his $44 billion (over R790 billion) takeover of Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s richest man closed the deal on Thursday night, and following the takeover, two of the company\u2019s top executives, chief executive Parag Agrawal and chief financial officer Ned Segal, are said to have departed the firm, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to Twitter\u2019s logo, Larry T Bird, Elon tweeted: \u201cthe bird is freed\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">the bird is freed<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1585841080431321088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Twitter is yet to confirm the sale of the company, but an early investor in the firm confirmed to the BBC that a deal had been completed. <\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old businessman \u2013 who is the CEO of Tesla \u2013 has changed his Twitter bio to read: \u201cChief Twit\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Elon \u2013 who has more than 110 million followers on the platform \u2013 shared a video of himself arriving at Twitter HQ carrying a sink. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Meeting a lot of cool people at Twitter today!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1585385664606269440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He wrote: \u201cEntering Twitter HQ \u2013 let that sink in!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elon also posted: \u201cMeeting a lot of cool people at Twitter today!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, during the week, Elon used Twitter to outline his motivation for buying the platform and his vision for how it could moderate content.<\/p>\n<p>He tweeted in a message called \u2018Dear Twitter Advertisers\u2019: \u201cThe reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilisation to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>!function(e,t,r){let n;if(e.getElementById(r))return;const a=e.getElementsByTagName(\u201cscript\u201d)[0];n=e.createElement(\u201cscript\u201d),n.id=r,n.defer=!0,n.src=\u201dhttps:\/\/playback.oovvuu.media\/player\/v1.js\u201d,a.parentNode.insertBefore(n,a)}(document,0,\u201doovvuu-player-sdk\u201d);<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Elon added there is a huge danger social media will splinter into far right-wing and far left-wing echo chambers that could divide society, warning: \u201cIn the relentless pursuit of clicks, much of traditional media has fuelled and catered to those polarised extremes, as they believe that is what brings in the money, but, in doing so, the opportunity for dialogue is lost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences! In addition to adhering to the laws of the land, our platform must be warm and welcoming to all, where you can choose your desired experience according to your preferences, just as you can choose, for example, to see movies or play video games ranging from all ages to mature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-671d90eac89ffea14fd3740f641eea77\">BANG ShowBiz<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has completed his $44 billion (over R790 billion) takeover of Twitter. The world\u2019s richest man closed the deal on Thursday night, and following the takeover, two of the company\u2019s top executives, chief executive Parag Agrawal and chief financial officer Ned Segal, are said to have departed the firm, according to Bloomberg. Referring to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}