- These are the first public statements of the tycoon after proposing to continue with his original offer to buy the social network for 44,000 million dollars.
Tycoon Elon Musk said Tuesday that the acquisition of Twitter would be a step towards creating a new multifunctional application.
“Buying Twitter is an accelerator to create X, the everything app,” the billionaire tweeted. One user replied to the tweet saying that he thought starting X from scratch would have been easier, to which Musk replied, “Twitter probably speeds X up three to five years, but I could be wrong.”
These are the first public statements of the richest man in the world after proposing to continue with his original offer to buy Twitter for 44,000 million dollars with the purpose of closing the legal battle with the social network.
Musk did not provide further details about the application he has in mind, but in previous statements he has hinted at his desire to make Twitter a more useful platform, indicating that he would like it to be more like TikTok and WeChat, a very popular messaging service. in China that offers a wide variety of services, from sending money to ordering food.