{"id":81651,"date":"2022-05-26T01:49:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T05:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=81651"},"modified":"2022-05-26T01:49:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T05:49:37","slug":"how-elon-musks-twitter-takeover-plans-shook-wall-street-and-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2022\/how-elon-musks-twitter-takeover-plans-shook-wall-street-and-social-media.html","title":{"rendered":"How Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter takeover plans shook Wall Street and social media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Elon Musk wears many hats as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/TSLA\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla<\/a> CEO, SpaceX CEO, and founder of the Boring Company and Neuralink. He\u2019s also a prolific <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/TWTR\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> user. The news that Musk made a $44 billion offer to buy Twitter and potentially become the social media company\u2019s CEO has sent shock waves through Wall Street and social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cForty-four billion continues to be a head-scratcher for a company that I believe is probably worth closer to $30 or $35 billion,\u201d said Wedbush analyst Dan Ives in an interview with CNBC. \u201cBut when you\u2019re the richest person in the world, you can do that. And that\u2019s why Twitter investors, when they saw the $44 billion, they were popping champagne or drinking their favorite alcohol.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2022\/05\/21\/how-elon-musks-twitter-takeover-plans-shook-wall-street-and-social-media.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Elon Musk wears many hats as Tesla CEO, SpaceX CEO, and founder of the Boring Company and Neuralink. He\u2019s also a prolific Twitter user. The news that Musk made a $44 billion offer to buy Twitter and potentially become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81652,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81651\/revisions\/81652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}