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With hours left until the deadline, the message came from several American media:
Elon Musk is now the owner of Twitter.
And it costs.
During the night of Friday, Swedish time, both CNBC and Business Insider stated that Tesla founder Elon Musk finally agreed with Twitter about the disputed deal.
According to both media companies, CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal have left Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco and will not be returning.
Elon Musk is now said to pay the initially agreed purchase price of 44 billion dollars, corresponding to 482,335,920,000 Swedish kronor in current money value.
Twitter and Musk agreed on the deal in April, but after just a few weeks the multibillionaire began to hesitate and wanted to withdraw, among other things after criticism of fake accounts and bots on the platform.
Twitter then threatened to sue Musk and months of trench warfare between the parties and their lawyers began.
A few weeks ago, Elon Musk swung again, saying he was ready to complete the purchase if Twitter withdrew from the litigation.
Meanwhile, a judge in the state of Delaware set an Oct. 28 deadline for the deal to close. Otherwise, Musk and Twitter would meet in court.