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Beth Ure

Full timeline of Elon Musk purchasing Twitter as billionaire offers to buy app a second time

Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter a second time, but how did it all come to this?

The tech billionaire and founder of SpaceX first offered to buy Twitter for more than 40 billion dollars (£30.5 billion) back in April. On April 4 it was revealed Musk had purchased 9% of shares in the company, making him the largest shareholder.

On April 11 Musk announced that he had declined to join the board of directors for the social media, and submitted plans to buy the company and make it private three days later.

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