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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles

Jokes, cheers and dire warnings: Twitter reacts to Musk’s takeover

twitter sign on side of building
The Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Elon Musk reached a deal to purchase the company on Monday. Photograph: Jed Jacobsohn/AP

Elon Musk’s $44bn deal to buy Twitter has elicited cheers, concern, and lots of questions for the future, most of them issued on, well, Twitter.

Musk, who has described himself as a “free speech absolutist”, reached a deal with the company on Monday in a takeover that will eventually give him control of the social network, which has more than 200 million users.

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