The Twitter Take-Over.
Twitter board has agreed to sell the social media company to Billionaire Elon Musk in a $44 billion deal.
Anthony Mutisya 
The incessantly inventive and eccentric billionaire has agreed to buy Twitter, giving him control of the social media network where the world debates, mobilizes, and bickers.
It is Musk's latest conquest after revolutionizing the automobile industry, sending his own rocket to space, amassing the world's largest fortune – and creating fountains of moral outrage and celebrity gossip along the way.
Musk, 50, overtook Amazon's Jeff Bezos as the world's richest person last year, thanks to the meteoric rise of Tesla, his electric car company founded in 2003.
His takeover of Twitter is the culmination of a whirlwind of announcements and counter-announcements, which he typically punctuated by gleefully firing jabs at the company on its own platform.
And Musk's new persona as a social media tyrant will stoke debate about his political beliefs, business methods, and outsized personality.
He is a libertarian, anti-woke, impulsive, and self-promotes as a champion of free speech. Some describe him as right-wing, while others accuse him of being autocratic and bullying.
All of this comes in the same month that Musk made headlines by opening a "gigafactory" in Texas, after the company left California due to a disagreement over his efforts to defy a state shutdown of his plant to stop the spread of Covid-19.
And there's more: his space transportation company, SpaceX, is currently breaking new ground as a partner in a three-way venture that launched the first fully private mission to the International Space Station.
