Twitter has been sold to Elon Musk and will go private after agreeing to a deal worth $44 billion.
Elon Musk struck a deal on Monday to buy Twitter for roughly $44 billion, in a victory by the world’s richest man to take over the influential social network frequented by world leaders, celebrities and cultural trendsetters.

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