A lot has happened since then, as I’m now up to over 16,000. I’ve mentioned TweetAdder before, but last time I really told my story was all the way back in January 2010 on how I got 500 targeted Twitter followers in 5 days. He responded, “I would drive the product, which is what I do at SpaceX and Tesla… Whether I am called the CEO or something else is much less important than my ability to drive the product in the right direction.” At the meeting with Twitter staffers, Musk suggested that layoffs would be in the offing if he successfully completes the takeover. TweetAdder 3 Has Arrived (The App That Got Me 16,000 Twitter Followers) JAugust 29, 2010. Musk also was asked whether he plans to be CEO of Twitter. Ideally, he said, he would like to get 80% of people in North America or “half the world” population on Twitter in some way. “Generally the approach should be to let people say what they want… but limit who sees that based on any given Twitter users’ preferences,” said Musk. Musk, as he did in his town hall Q&A with Twitter employees last week, drew a distinction between “freedom of speech” and “freedom of reach.” “It obviously cannot be a place where feel uncomfortable or harassed, or they’ll simply not use it.” “My aspiration for Twitter, or in general for the digital town square, would be that it is as inclusive in the broadest sense of the word as possible,” Musk replied. Musk was interviewed at the conference by Bloomberg News editor-in-chief John Micklethwait, who asked the mega-billionaire whether there is a limit to who should be allowed on Twitter. Shares of Twitter were up more than 2% amid a broader market uptick Tuesday, but were still trading under $39/share - nearly 30% below Musk’s bid price, underscoring continued investor skepticism that the deal will close. The company’s board of directors has unanimously recommended that shareholders vote in favor of the deal. Meanwhile, Twitter is expected to set a shareholder vote on Musk’s bid later this summer. Musk, currently the world’s richest individual, has lined up financing from Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, Prince al-Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar, Sequoia Capital, cryptocurrency exchange, and a16z, the VC firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. Musk’s offer to buy Twitter for $54.20/share comprises $27.25 billion in equity financing, $6.25 billion in margin loans, and $10.5 billion in debt financing.
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