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Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share, so it can be ‘transformed as private company’
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Posted on 04/14/2022 4:17:59 AM PDT by bryan999

Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share, saying the social media company needs to be transformed privately, a little over a week after first revealing a 9.2% stake in the company.

“I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy,” Musk wrote in a letter sent to Twitter Chairman Bret Taylor and disclosed in a securities filing.

According to Musk, the social media company needs to go private because it can “neither thrive nor serve” free speech in its current state.

“As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter and a 38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced,” he wrote. “My offer is my best and final offer and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder.”

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To: Captain Peter Blood

Hope you’re right! Twitter is currently trading at $47/Share! Hopefully enough of the institutional investors jump at Musk’s $54/Share offer to enable him to acquire 51%+ of Twitter stock that he can take immediate control and make Twitter a privately owned company and end Twitters censorship for good!


81 posted on 04/14/2022 7:22:42 AM PDT by dsm69 (Boycott News Media/Hollywood Advertisers )
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To: sphinx

One thing about Musk that puts him directly at odds with the New World Order demons is he’s totally opposed to their depopulation goals. He says the real problem in the world is women aren’t having enough babies. He’d better be careful out there.


82 posted on 04/14/2022 7:38:51 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: I want the USA back

My heart goes out to those therapy animals! :)


83 posted on 04/14/2022 7:49:21 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: fatima
This is fun.I bought twitter stock last week :)

I may buy some, I'm not sure if his offer is filed yet.

84 posted on 04/14/2022 7:50:18 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: PIF

What % does he need? He surely doesn’t need 100% to take Twitter private. If the majority of shareholders and board of directors vote to make the company private, they can do so.

It’s happened to other publicly traded companies that decided to go private. They just have to compensate the remaining shareholders by buying out their shares at the price the stock was when the company announced they were going private.


85 posted on 04/14/2022 7:51:32 AM PDT by dsm69 (Boycott News Media/Hollywood Advertisers )
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To: dsm69

What % does he need?

Oh just stop! the offer is for 100%. Deal with it.


87 posted on 04/14/2022 7:59:35 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: navymom1

This could be the cheaper way to get TruthSocial going well.


88 posted on 04/14/2022 8:03:55 AM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: SmokingJoe

Thanks.


89 posted on 04/14/2022 8:39:53 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: I want the USA back

Coloring books available, also.


90 posted on 04/14/2022 8:43:47 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: I want the USA back

How many who MIGHT stay will be triggered further by getting a regular paycheck signed by ELON MUSK????/


91 posted on 04/14/2022 8:44:35 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: xzins

Musk can sell his current stake-—at a profit...

Which would be ‘firing a warning shot across the bow’ of many other Leftist groups.


92 posted on 04/14/2022 8:46:31 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: dsm69

HIS offer is for 100% of the stock...


93 posted on 04/14/2022 8:52:07 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: bryan999

Is ole Ed’s “free speech” the same as our “free speech”?


94 posted on 04/14/2022 8:52:30 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Free Will. GOD gives you the choice I accept or reject Him! Choose Him. It depends on you.)
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To: bryan999

Wow...can you imagine the investors on this? Cash out and make a ton of money OR sit there and watch the stock fall as more and more people realize twitter is a leftist tool.


95 posted on 04/14/2022 9:57:34 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: bryan999

I LOVE high-stakes poker, but — GAAAHH!! — why now?!?!

I wanna play, but it’s Tax Season, and I have no margin at the moment. [exits grumbling off down the hall]


96 posted on 04/14/2022 10:10:13 AM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: 9YearLurker

Oh so that’s how u play

Pathetic

Bash regular white people but nope can’t simply say the truth about any sacred cows

You’re the problem with conservatism

Blissfully unaware of your bigotry


97 posted on 04/14/2022 10:42:37 AM PDT by wardaddy (Faulkner never knew Free Republic but he coined its nickname...The Sound and The Fury)
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To: bryan999

A. unusual offer to buy 100% of stock, so shouldn’t be any disgruntled shareholders to file lawsuits.

B. given the size of the premium offer and the fact that twitter ain’t making money, very unlikely a white knight will step in with a better offer ...


98 posted on 04/14/2022 11:36:37 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: bryan999

Elon Musk: “I hated the company so much that i decided to buy it!”


99 posted on 04/14/2022 11:40:43 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: xzins

Musk should take the bidding profit & invest it in TruthSocial + Rumble.


100 posted on 04/14/2022 12:47:40 PM PDT by bobcat62
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