after change Billionaire Elon Musk His opinion during the past hours, stressing that he was ready to revive the deal to buy the major social networking company Twitter for $ 44 billion, calling for an end to a lawsuit brought by the giant platform, which could force him to pay whether he wanted or not, the controversial man detonated another bomb, detonated today is Wednesday.
In a tweet, he revealed the reason for his change of path, writing that buying the social media giant would accelerate his ambition to create the “everything app” he calls X.
Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2022
Responding to a follower’s comment asking if it wasn’t easier to start X from scratch, the Tesla CEO said, “Twitter purchases likely to accelerate X by 3 to 5 years.”
But he returned and added that his assessment may be wrong!
Twitter probably accelerates X by 3 to 5 years, but I could be wrong
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2022
It is noteworthy that the new offer to return to the purchase deal came before a highly anticipated confrontation between Musk and Twitter in a Delaware court on October 17, as the social media company seeks to obtain an order for Musk to complete the deal for $ 44 billion.
Why change the path?
However, the real reason Musk abandoned his fight is not yet clear, although some have attributed it to the approach of facing questions from the company’s lawyer.
Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School, saw that the SpaceX chief “was about to face questions from Twitter’s lawyer, and he was going to come up with a lot of uncomfortable facts,” according to Archyde.com.
Elon Musk (Archyde.com)
It is noteworthy that the agreement to acquire Twitter would put the world’s richest person at the helm of one of the most influential media platforms.
It would also end 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 had originally committed to buying in April, but he later reversed his decision.