{"id":7333,"date":"2022-10-11T07:39:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T05:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/11\/why-does-elon-musk-want-to-buy-twitter-podcast\/"},"modified":"2022-10-11T07:39:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T05:39:43","slug":"why-does-elon-musk-want-to-buy-twitter-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/11\/why-does-elon-musk-want-to-buy-twitter-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Elon Musk want to buy Twitter? \u2013 podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in April this year, Tesla chief executive Elon Musk signed a $44bn (\u00a340bn) takeover agreement for Twitter. But, in July, the world\u2019s richest man said he was walking away from the controversial deal, arguing Twitter has more spam accounts than it claims. Then, last week, Musk offered to complete the acquisition in a dramatic U-turn. So what might happen next?<\/p>\n<p>Ian Sample talks to the Guardian\u2019s global technology editor, Dan Milmo, about why Musk wants to own the social media platform, hears about the twists and turns of the saga so far, and finds out if the takeover is ever likely to happen<\/p>\n<p><em>Archive: Fox News, NBC News, Yahoo Finance, MSNBC, Financial Times, BBC News<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/audio\/2022\/oct\/11\/why-does-elon-musk-want-to-buy-twitter-podcast\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/73d3e2f95ee44c35aaa676cf63f6879300fef7c7\/0_1_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ff41fdab0986de5d3fa3a2ff7641e2a3\" title=\"Why does Elon Musk want to buy Twitter? \u2013 podcast\" \/>Back in April this year, Tesla chief executive Elon Musk signed a $44bn (\u00a340bn) takeover agreement for Twitter. But, in July, the world\u2019s richest man said he was walking away from the controversial deal, arguing Twitter has more spam accounts than it claims. Then, last week, Musk offered to complete the acquisition in a dramatic U-turn. So what might happen next?<br \/>\nIan Sample talks to the Guardian\u2019s global technology editor, Dan Milmo, about why Musk wants to own the social media platform, hears about the twists and turns of the saga so far, and finds out if the takeover is ever likely to happen<br \/>\nArchive: Fox News, NBC News, Yahoo Finance, MSNBC, Financial Times, BBC News Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in April this year, Tesla chief executive Elon Musk signed a $44bn (\u00a340bn) takeover agreement for Twitter. But, in July, the world\u2019s richest man said he was walking away from the controversial deal, arguing Twitter has more spam accounts than it claims. Then, last week, Musk offered to complete the acquisition in a dramatic &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/11\/why-does-elon-musk-want-to-buy-twitter-podcast\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why does Elon Musk want to buy Twitter? \u2013 podcast<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}