\u201cLeave Twitter\u201d trends as Elon Musk offers to buy entire company Twitter\/Elon MuskElon Musk has reportedly offered to buy Twitter entirely for $43 billion, just one week after investing $3 billion into the social media platform. With his offer going public, the phrase \u201cLeave Twitter\u201d began to trend as users began debating about leaving the platform for good. Tesla founder Elon Musk made waves when he officially invested $3 billion into Twitter, instantly becoming the largest shareholder of the company. However, the richest man on Earth seemingly wasn\u2019t satisfied with just his initial investment in the company. Despite not joining the board of directors of the company, he\u2019s still fixated on Twitter. On April 14, Musk made a formal offer to buy Twitter outright for $54.20 per share, totaling an insane $43 billion. Elon Musk splits Twitter users with attempted takeover In Elon\u2019s offer, he revealed his reasoning for submitting the offer after his first investment, \u201cHowever, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.\u201d Mere moments after Musk\u2019s offer was made public, Twitter users got the phrase \u201cLeave Twitter\u201d trending on the site. Most tweets with the phrase were simply asking if users would actually leave in the event Elon did take over, as the massive business move sparked curiosity over the future of the platform. One user questioned if the potential takeover would even matter, \u201cLiterally nothing is going to change for the vast majority of Twitter users if\/when Elon Musk takes over.\u201d They went on to add, \u201cAnd honestly I guarantee that most people threatening to leave now are still going to stay. I honestly don\u2019t see what everybody\u2019s worked up over.\u201d Literally nothing is going to change for the vast majority of Twitter users if\/when Elon Musk takes over. And honestly I guarantee that most people threatening to leave now are still going to stay. I honestly don\u2019t see what everybody\u2019s worked up over. \u2014 Oliver Jia (\u30aa\u30ea\u30d0\u30fc\u30fb\u30b8\u30a2) (@OliverJia1014) April 14, 2022 Of course, there were some who voiced their outrage over the potential deal with one user saying: \u201cSeriously, why does Elon want Twitter? Leave us the f**k alone, you goon!\u201d Billionaires buying up social media platforms and news outlets isn\u2019t a new thing, but Musk taking over Twitter for over $40 billion would certainly be unprecedented for that amount of cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cLeave Twitter\u201d trends as Elon Musk offers to buy entire company Twitter\/Elon MuskElon Musk has reportedly offered to buy Twitter entirely for $43 billion, just one week after investing $3 billion into the social media platform. With his offer going public, the phrase \u201cLeave Twitter\u201d began to trend as users began debating about leaving the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}