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Elon Musk to acquire Twitter for $44 billion

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday reached an agreement to buy with social media firm Twitter for roughly $44 billion. Twitter investors will get $54.20 in cash for each share of Twitter common stock they possess when the proposed deal closes, according to the terms of the agreement. “The Twitter Board conducted a thoughtful and […]

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Twitter Suspends More Than 1,000 Accounts Allegedly Linked to Russian IRA Agency

Twitter has suspended 1,062 accounts that were allegedly linked to the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency (IRA) and shared information meant to meddle with the 2016 US presidential election. In a press release, the company announced about the suspension of these accounts. “We have identified an additional 1,062 accounts associated with the IRA,” the release […]

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Coffee is the Most Popular Food on Twitter, Finds New Study

A new study carried out by researchers at the University of Utah has found that coffee is the most tweeted-about consumable in the United States. The researchers—who received $721,825 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to carry out this study—analyzed about 80 million tweets sent by 603,363 unique users between April 2015 and March […]