As a comparison, Twitter’s second-biggest shareholder is Vanguard, which has an 8.79% stake while the company’s founder Jack Dorsey, who recently stepped down as CEO, owns a little over 2% of Twitter. Elon’s stake in Twitter is estimated to be worth around US$2.89 billion (~RM12.1 billion).
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 26, 2022 The revelation has caused Twitter shares to surge up to 26% which is its biggest intraday increase in more than four years. Interesting enough, the move comes not long after Musk publicly contemplated starting a new social media platform that would prioritise free speech. When Parag Agrawal took over Twitter as its leader, Musk posted a meme of Agrawal being depicted as dictator Joseph Stalin, which implies that the new top shareholder might not be a fan of the newly-minted CEO. The Tesla CEO has over 80 million followers on Twitter and regularly makes announcements on the site, with Musk finding himself in hot water with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in 2018 after teasing about taking Tesla private. Elon Musk at Tesla factory in Fremont back in 2011. [Image: Maurizio Pesce / Flickr.]That being said, he has yet to reveal if he has any future plans for Twitter. Then again, he is currently running a poll that revolves around the much-requested edit button for the platform. (Source: Twitter [pdf], Reuters, Bloomberg)
