Musk respawns Twitter deal; employees "says used to the drama"
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New Delhi: Tesla-Space X CEO, Elon Musk, is back once again in pursuit of buying the micro-blogging social media giant, Twitter, pitching his original offer of $ 44 billion. Earlier, he had made the deal for the same price, then backed out and later got sued by it for cancelling the deal, NDTV reports.
However, a one-line tweet from him on Wednesday suggested that he was hinting at using Twitter as a launchpad for his own social media "X.com".
His tweet read, "Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app." NDTV reports that though he does not specify what he meant by "everything", he had plans in the past to launch "X.com" to rival Twitter.
Further, when a Twitter user replied on Wednesday, "it would have been easier to just start X from scratch", Musk replied that Twitter might accelerate X by 3 to 5 years.
Musk's new offer comes when the trial of the court case is to start on October 17.
In the meantime, employees from Twitter, who were in an uncertainty when Musk first made his offer and revoked it, told Reuters they are used to this "drama".
Reuters quoted an employee, "I think everyone is used to the drama. We're just along for the ride."
Sources inside the company told the news agency that they heard the news with a sense of déjà vu after months of uncertainty inside it.
One employee said that the company is working on only around half of its projects after the uncertainty.
Reuters quotes JP Doherty, an engineering manager at Twitter, "All of the frazzled nerves, all of the uncertainty, all of the worrying, all of the back and forth and back and forth, people I care about struggling and anxious. And we just come right back to where it started, maybe. Unbelievable."