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Elon Musk tweets ‘Love Me Tender’ days after Twitter takeover offer

Elon Musk tweets ‘Love Me Tender’ days after Twitter takeover offer
Elon Musk, who is also the CEO of electric-vehicle maker Tesla, has amassed a 9.1 percent stake in Twitter. (Reuters)
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Updated 18 April 2022

Elon Musk tweets ‘Love Me Tender’ days after Twitter takeover offer

Elon Musk tweets ‘Love Me Tender’ days after Twitter takeover offer
  • Elon Musk earlier hinted at the possibility of a hostile bid in which he would bypass Twitter’s board and put the offer directly to its shareholders

Elon Musk tweeted “Love Me Tender,” an Elvis Presley song, a day after Twitter Inc. adopted a “poison pill” to protect itself from the billionaire’s $43 billion cash offer to buy the social media company.
After Musk’s TED talk on Thursday, he hinted at the possibility of a hostile bid in which he would bypass Twitter’s board and put the offer directly to its shareholders, tweeting: “It would be utterly indefensible not to put this offer to a shareholder vote.”
In another tweet over the weekend, Musk, a self-described “free speech absolutist” who has been critical of Twitter and its policies, replied to a post of his from 2017 where he had asked “How much is it (Twitter)?” with an upside down smiley.
Musk, who is also the CEO of electric-vehicle maker Tesla Inc, has amassed a 9.1 percent stake in Twitter and is the social media firm’s second-biggest shareholder.
Shares of Twitter rose 2.1 percent to $46.03 in premarket trading on Monday, still significantly below Musk’s offer of $54.20 per share. The company’s shares have risen roughly 15 percent since Musk disclosed his stake on April 4.
Thoma Bravo, a technology-focused private equity firm that had more than $103 billion in assets under management as of the end of December, informed Twitter that it was exploring the possibility of putting together a bid, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.