TechScape: 25 (more) tweets on Twitter’s future

The world's richest person is clearing house and causing chaos at one of the world's top social media platforms. From verification to free speech, here's inside Elon Musk's first days of power

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1. I was a bit hasty back in April. Elon Musk did not, in fact, buy Twitter that month. But now he has. The six-month delay, which likely cost incredible sums in legal bills and caused upheaval in Twitter HQ, is over. Musk saved $0 on the purchase price.

2. The deal is the largest take-private since 2016 (when Dell bought EMC in a $67bn deal), the third largest in history (after Texas-based Energy Future's acquisition in 2007) and overwhelmingly the biggest one led, funded and controlled by a private individual.