Well, that escalated quickly. Twitter officially announced that it has accepted a $44 billion offer from Elon Musk to take the company private.
After an eventful weekend between Elon Musk and Twitter’s board, this morning it it looked like a possible deal between the two sides could be announced sometime today. And now, it’s official.
According to PR Newswire, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal stated the following in response to the deal being made: “Twitter has a purpose and relevance that impacts the entire world. Deeply proud of our teams and inspired by the work that has never been more important.”
On Sunday, negotiations had begun between Musk and Twitter regarding his offer to buy the company and take it private. And according to Reuters, Twitter had been expected to accept Musk’s initial offer of $43 billion. This sudden turn of events appears to be due in large part to Musk revealing his financing plans last week, which had then resulted in Twitter’s shareholders asking “the company not to let the opportunity for a deal to slip away.”
Reuters also reported this morning the following details about the possible deal reached between Musk and Twitter, all of which turned out to be true:
All of this occurred not long after Twitter had adopted a poison pill strategy in response to (and ostensibly to defend against) the offer they’re now expected to accept on Monday. At the time of this writing Twitter is currently at $50.67 per share, according to MarketWatch.
Musk’s last tweet before becoming the new owner of the company seemed to foreshadow the upcoming acquisition:
I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2022
This story is still developing and we will update it as more details emerge.
Discord is trying to push more visibility on the internet for some of its biggest communities, and there's a good chance your messages could end up in a Google Search. The platform is preparing to make conversations from certain public servers searchable on the web, so there's a privacy setting you might want to check before the rollout begins.
According to Discord's official announcement, the changes will roll out in two stages. Starting November 16, qualifying servers will have public web pages featuring automated summaries of conversations. By mid-December, individual messages from eligible public channels could also appear word-for-word in Google and other search engines.
You just opened X and started typing your thoughts. Imagine the jump scare when a hand suddenly pops up on your screen, pointing at the promote button. It doesn’t say a word and simply points. For a growing number of X users, this isn’t a made-up scenario but something they have been seeing since yesterday, and very few of them are amused.
Most of us have learned to tune out the usual in-app upsells, whether it’s a glowing upgrade banner or a pop-up about a premium plan. A floating hand hovering over your draft is much harder to ignore, and that’s probably the whole point.
Scroll through any app for five minutes, and you’ll find someone maxxing something. Their skin, their sleep, their protein intake, even their Friday night on the couch. That little suffix has been everywhere this year, and now it has a trophy to show for it. In a recent announcement, Dictionary.com named maxxing its 2026 Word of the Year.
What are people actually doing when they’re maxxing?