after the change Billionaire Elon Musk His opinion in the past few hours, stressing that he is ready to relaunch the agreement for the purchase of the large social networking company Twitter for 44 billion dollars, asking for the end of a lawsuit brought by the giant of the platform, which could force him to pay whether wanted or not, the controversial man detonated another bomb, detonated today is Wednesday.
In a tweet, he revealed the reason for his change of course, writing that the purchase of the social media giant would accelerate his ambition to create the “everything app” he calls X.
Buying Twitter is an accelerator to create X, the app of everything
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2022
Responding to a follower’s comment asking if it wasn’t easier to start X from scratch, Tesla’s CEO said, “Twitter purchases will likely accelerate X in 3 to 5 years.”
But he came back and added that his assessment may be wrong!
Twitter probably speeds up X from 3 to 5 years, but I could be wrong
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2022
Interestingly, the new offer to return to the purchase agreement came ahead of a highly anticipated confrontation between Musk and Twitter in a Delaware court on Oct.17, as the social media company tries to get an order for Musk to complete the deal for $ 44 billion.
Why change path?
However, the real reason Musk quit his fight is still unclear, although some have attributed it to the approach of dealing with the firm’s attorney’s questions.
Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School, saw that the SpaceX chief “was about to address the questions of the Twitter attorney and would come up with a lot of awkward facts,” according to Reuters.
Elon Musk (Reuters)
Interestingly, the deal to acquire Twitter would put the richest person in the world at the helm of one of the most influential media platforms.
It would also have ended a months-long litigation that damaged the Twitter brand and fueled what was known about Musk’s strange and unexpected actions and decisions.
The American billionaire will take over the company he originally pledged to buy in April, but later overturned his decision.
