
Shares of social media companies including Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), Pinterest, Inc. (NYSE:PINS) and Snap Inc. (NYSE:SNAP) are trading higher in sympathy with Twitter, Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) after Elon Musk disclosed a 9.2% stake in the company.
Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk bought 73,486,938 Twitter shares with sole power to vote. The nearly $3 billion purchase reportedly makes Musk the largest Twitter shareholder.