New Delhi: Tesla Chief Elon Musk, one of the richest man in the world, finally bought the social networking site Twitter. Elon Musk has become the new owner of Twitter. He bought Twitter for $44 billion. According to the information, the company said that this deal has been done for 44 billion US dollars i.e. about 3368 billion rupees.
After this deal, Elon Musk tweeted that ‘I hope even my worst critics stay on Twitter, because that’s what free speech means.’ This tweet of Musk is becoming increasingly viral on social media.
Earlier, Elon Musk held a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter. Elon Musk bought this stake in Twitter some time ago. With this, Musk became the largest shareholder of Twitter. However, later the fund held by Vanguard Group bought a 10.3 percent stake in Twitter. In this way it became the largest shareholder of the company.
history of twitter
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams.
Twitter was launched in July 2006.
The use of hashtags was first proposed in 2007 by American blogger, product consultant and speaker Chris Messina in a 2007 tweet.
– As of 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 6 billion search queries per day.
– In 2013, it was one of the ten most visited websites and was described as the “SMS of the Internet”.
– As of early 2019, Twitter had over 330 million monthly active users.
first published:April 26, 2022, 6:56 a.m.
