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Trick or tweet: Elon’s in charge now

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  • Twitter gets Musked

  • The Issa brothers fly private

  • Michael Klein returns to Wall Street

Musk sinks his teeth into Twitter

It took a bit of arm twisting, but Elon Musk finally closed his deal to buy Twitter last week — paying $44bn for the social media platform.

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This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:Francesca Friday