Elon Musk buys Twitter
The world's richest person, Elon Mask, has finalised a deal with Twitter to buy the platform for $US44 Billion ($61.4 billion).
Musk has used Twitter to great effect in recent years and made the offer to purchase the platform because he believed it was not living up to its full potential for 'free speech'.
"Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated," Mr Musk said in a statement following the purchase.
"I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans."
Do you currently use twitter? Will this purchase make you move away from the platform?
I greatly admire Elon Musk. Although I have no use for twitter, it's good to see him taking such an interest. I understand it is his favourite social media platform.