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Elon Reeve Musk FRS (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and investor known for his key roles in space company SpaceX and automotive company Tesla, Inc. Other involvements include ownership of X Corp., the company that operates the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), and his role in the founding of The Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink and OpenAI.
On July 22, 2023, Elon Musk announced that the service would be re-branded to "X", [265] in his pursuit of creating an "everything app". [264] Musk's X profile picture, along with the official X accounts, and the icons when browsing/signing up for the platform, were updated to reflect the new logo. [266]
Elon Musk initiated the acquisition of Twitter, Inc. on April 14, 2022, and completed it on October 28, 2022. [ 23][ 24] His goal was to transform Twitter into X, an all-encompassing app inspired by WeChat. [ 25] By April, Musk had become Twitter's largest shareholder with a 9.2 percent stake and made an unsolicited $44 billion offer on April ...
Elon Musk said the account of right-wing extremist Alex Jones would be reinstated on X, formerly known as Twitter, reversing a 2018 decision by the company’s previous management to deplatform ...
Todd Spangler. May 17, 2024 at 11:37 AM. Elon Musk is retiring the last vestige of Twitter — the twitter.com web address — as the social network has fully moved over to the x.com domain name ...
John P. Moore, Cornell medical school. That image has taken a hit in recent months, thanks to Musk's misadventure with Twitter. The doubts originated with his whimsical offer last April to buy the ...
Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk. Business magnate Elon Musk initiated an acquisition of American social media company Twitter, Inc. on April 14, 2022, and concluded it on October 28, 2022. Musk stated he intended to buy Twitter to build X, an "everything app" he had been developing since 2018 to mimic the Chinese app WeChat. [ 1]
In Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter, however, the destruction of the old, valuable identity seems to be the point. ... July 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)