Musk looked like a "scumbag" in his game with Twitter .
Seeing that Twitter has many users and a high market capitalization, Musk has long been eager to get it. On the surface, he is critical of Twitter, but secretly he keeps buying Twitter stocks. In April, he suddenly became the largest individual shareholder of Twitter. Then Haoqi issued a blank check of US$44 billion and reached an acquisition agreement.
But within half a month, it suddenly announced that it would temporarily shelve the acquisition plan, and began to accuse Twitter of spam, fake accounts and other problems. It’s the same as finding every reason to blame your girlfriend when you break up with a scumbag.
Twitter is also like most girlfriends who don’t want to break up, saying that they can change things if they don’t do well, actively providing false account data to Musk, and saying that they will continue to delete false accounts.
Unfortunately, Musk has already made up his mind to leave, and officially announced his plans to terminate the acquisition on July 8, local time. Twitter formally filed a lawsuit against Musk four days later, demanding that he acquire it for $44 billion.
This acquisition dispute, which makes people lament that "if life is just like the first time we met", will continue. What will be the final result?
There are currently two speculations. One is that Musk will not look back, do not acquire, and will fight the lawsuit with Twitter to the end; the other is that he still loves it and still wants to acquire Twitter. Musk has repeatedly jumped around, just for some reason. It made him feel uncomfortable.
The "fake accounts and spam" issues he mentioned are obviously just excuses. As for the reason why he started to mess up and finally gave up, the mainstream speculation is that Twitter’s market value has plummeted in recent months, and Musk did not want to make a big mistake.
In fact, Musk should know that he himself caused the decline in Twitter’s stock price. His series of operations brought a lot of uncertainty to Twitter, which was ultimately reflected in the stock price.
Musk wanted to acquire Twitter, but Twitter didn't want him to succeed. It even launched the " poison pill plan " to dilute the equity by issuing new shares. The side effects directly caused Twitter's stock to be worthless. After
reached the acquisition agreement, Musk talked about Twitter’s rectification plan, threatening to rectify the troll army and reduce Twitter’s reliance on advertising. This obviously cuts off Twitter's financial path and will undoubtedly increase investors' concerns about Twitter not making money in the future.
Coupled with Musk’s constant attacks on Twitter with fake accounts and other issues, Twitter has been plagued with negativity, its commercial value has been greatly reduced, and investors’ long-term confidence has been shaken.
In addition, Musk is a workaholic and is strict with his employees. He has always been known as "Zhou Papi" in the minds of American employees. After the Twitter acquisition agreement was reached, Twitter employees were panicked, which directly led to an upward trend in the employee turnover rate of and . .
All kinds of negative news, superimposed together, severely depressed Twitter’s stock price.
Now that the two parties have gone to court, the final outcome of Musk and Twitter is most likely to be reconciled at a lower price through negotiation.
As expected, businessmen are all calculating and calculating in their minds.
