{"id":4076,"date":"2026-07-12T06:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T01:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=4076"},"modified":"2026-07-12T06:01:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T01:01:25","slug":"twitter-shareholders-tell-elon-musk-theyll-gladly-take-his-44-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=4076","title":{"rendered":"Twitter shareholders tell Elon Musk they&#8217;ll gladly take his $44 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-adroot=\"true\">\n<p>Twitter\u2019s shareholders have officially voted in favor of Elon Musk\u2019s proposed $44 billion buyout of the company. And that\u2019s even with Musk shouting across the ring that he doesn\u2019t want the deal to go through. The majority approval isn\u2019t exactly surprising; with Twitter stock currently riding around the $41-per-share mark, shareholders would profit from Musk\u2019s bid.<\/p>\n<p>Shareholder approval allows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inputmag.com\/tech\/elon-musk-sued-twitter-acquisition\" class=\"T3D\">Twitter\u2019s lawsuit against Musk<\/a> to move forward in the Delaware Court of Chancery. That lawsuit was filed after Musk attempted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inputmag.com\/culture\/elon-musk-terminates-twitter-deal-court-battle\" class=\"T3D\">back out of the deal<\/a> he\u2019d signed to acquire Twitter at a price of $54.20 per share.<\/p>\n<p>In an alternate timeline \u2014 one where Musk never decided to reverse course after signing a legally binding agreement \u2014 shareholder approval would be a big win for him. But we live in this reality, whether we want to or not, and therefore this approval is just another nail in Musk\u2019s coffin.<\/p>\n<p><u>Remind me where we\u2019re at? \u2014<\/u> Does anyone else feel like this drama has been playing out for years now? Just us? Turns out it\u2019s been less than half a year: Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inputmag.com\/culture\/elon-musk-offer-buy-twitter-burn-ground\" class=\"T3D\">first proposed his buyout<\/a> in April, a move many at Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inputmag.com\/tech\/twitter-poison-pill-elon-musk-takeover\" class=\"T3D\">quickly rejected<\/a>. But then Musk actually secured the required funds and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inputmag.com\/culture\/elon-musk-buys-twitter-to-take-private\" class=\"T3D\">Twitter accepted his offer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the intervening months, Musk has tried many times over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inputmag.com\/culture\/elon-musk-twitter-deal-sec\" class=\"T3D\">to terminate the agreement<\/a>. Musk\u2019s running argument is that there are far more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inputmag.com\/culture\/twitter-removes-one-million-fake-accounts-every-day-elon-musk\" class=\"T3D\">fake accounts<\/a> \u2014 spam and bots, mostly \u2014 on Twitter than the company will fess up to. Twitter has gone as far as to give Musk access to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inputmag.com\/culture\/twitter-elon-musk-bot-data-sec-deal\" class=\"T3D\">its \u201cfire hose\u201d of data<\/a>, including every tweet being sent on the site, to quell those concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Since that tactic hasn\u2019t made much of a dent, Musk is now trying to work on an angle involving security-executive-turned-whistleblower <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inputmag.com\/culture\/twitter-security-chief-whistleblower-complaint-ftc-justice-department-elon-musk\" class=\"T3D\">Peiter \u201cMudge\u201d Zatko<\/a>. (Zatko\u2019s disclosures have almost no bearing at all on Musk\u2019s arguments, but that\u2019s not stopping Musk from abusing every possible angle here.)<\/p>\n<p><u>Kind of a no-brainer \u2014<\/u> This week\u2019s shareholder approval means Twitter and Musk\u2019s legal teams will face off in court beginning next month. We\u2019re expecting plenty of mess, especially from Musk\u2019s side of the court. <\/p>\n<p>After all this drama, shareholders would almost certainly come out as losers if Musk\u2019s deal fell apart. The price of Twitter stock has gone up 26 percent in the last six months \u2014 but that price will surely plummet if the Musk buyout fails. Given the stakes, choosing Musk\u2019s $54.20 per share is really the only competent move for shareholders looking to profit from the chaos.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"fX2 rhF jIS\"\/><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter\u2019s shareholders have officially voted in favor of Elon Musk\u2019s proposed $44 billion buyout of the company. And that\u2019s even with Musk shouting across the ring that he doesn\u2019t want the deal to go through. The majority approval isn\u2019t exactly surprising; with Twitter stock currently riding around the $41-per-share mark, shareholders would profit from Musk\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imgix.bustle.com\/uploads\/getty\/2022\/9\/13\/7a313d92-926d-4168-a382-fb9a585c56ed-getty-1242798529.jpg?w=1200&h=630&fit=crop&crop=faces&fm=jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}