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ICYMI: Potential Twitter proprietor Elon Musk is known for peppering his extremely lively account on the platform with lighthearted jests alongside posts sharing critical inventory acquisitions.

Now the billionaire entrepreneur, within the wake of agreeing to purchase Twitter for $44bn, has stirred up his followers by posting a tweet that has led many to attract a clean: is he severely contemplating shopping for Coca-Cola or simply trolling his greater than 80 million followers?

Wall Road noticed expertise and progress shares surge on Thursday after sturdy earnings from Fb’s mother or father firm Meta allayed considerations the US financial system contracted within the first quarter of 2022.

As of 3pm, the markets have been having fun with their greatest day since Might 2020, with all three main indexes having fun with a sustained enhance.

Bevan Hurley has the small print.

The silence was by no means going to final.

Donald Trump has lastly posted on his Reality Social app, the struggling Twitter rival he launched earlier this yr, after an uncharacteristic monthslong quiet from the normally voluable former president.

Josh Marcus has the story.

ICYMI: The potential new proprietor of Twitter posted a cartoon meme that seems to point his perception that it’s really the left-wing of American politics that has moved to the acute since 2008, and never the right-wing.

The stick-figure cartoon suggests that individuals with centrist views in 2008, labelled “me” within the cartoon, at the moment are to the appropriate due to this modification.

Consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene stated that she hoped that she might meet with Tesla chief government Elon Musk amid information that he has acquired Twitter.

The best-wing congresswoman from Georgia made the remarks throughout a information convention in entrance of the Capitol when introducing laws that will abolish Part 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which says that service suppliers can’t be handled as a writer or or speaker of data supplied by one other supplier.

ICYMI: The Tesla and SpaceX tycoon has donated to each events and attacked everybody from Joe Biden via Donald Trump to commerce unions and ‘pronouns’, however beneath all of it there’s a constant ideology, writes Io Dodds.

Elon Musk has develop into the world’s richest particular person, and one of many enterprise world’s most polarising figures on the again of the staggering business success of Tesla and engineering brilliance of SpaceX.

And together with his $44bn provide for Twitter having been accepted by the social media’s platform’s board, Mr Musk will presumably add a 3rd CEO function to his assortment.

Matt Mullenwag, the founding father of Automattic, which owns Tumblr, tweeted that Tumblr noticed a 19% bump in new person registration within the wake of the information that Elon Musk was shopping for out the corporate

Twitter has additionally been overstating the variety of day by day customers on its service for the previous, overcounting by as much as 1.9 million customers every quarter, in information that broke following its quaterly earnings.

The error was as a consequence of Twitter counting a number of accounts as lively once they have been all owned by one person – even when they weren’t in use.

Twitter has simply posted its quarterly earnings, revealing a 16 per cent improve in customers and a income of $1.2 billion.

The primary three months of the yr noticed the San Francisco firm obtain a mean 229 million day by day lively customers – although this doesn’t take into consideration any impactf Musk’s involvement with the platform might need had. His 9.2 per cent stake, adopted by his takeover bid, have been all revealed in April.