Musk followed up on his $44 billion commitment to buy the company by posting one of the most successful weeks in the platform's history, at least in terms of interactions.
The new Model Y was unveiled by Musk in Hawthorne, California. The photo was taken by Frederic J. Brown.
Musk joked that he would buy Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in, after the news of the massive deal to buy Twitter.
The announcement of actor Chadwick Boseman's death was the most-liked post of all-time, with nearly 4.5 million likes, but Wednesday's quote from Musk was the second most-liked, with more than 850,000 likes.
His next most-liked message has more than 3.3 million likes and is seventh most-liked of all time.
According to data compiled by social media tracking firm NewsWhip, seven of Musk's top eight posts came after news broke that the board accepted his offer to buy the company.
Insider journalist Dave Smith was the most popular author on Musk's account, but it was still about Musk.
More than 8 million. That is how many followers Musk has on his account.
The board of the company accepted Musk's final offer to buy all of the company's shares for $54.20 and take it private. The offer was made earlier this month after it was disclosed that Musk had bought a 9.2% stake in the company. Musk has criticized the platform in the past for what he calls unnecessary censorship, and has stated that he will allow all speech on the platform that is permissible by law. It has been predicted that many banned accounts, like former President Donald Trump's, will be restored once Musk has control of the social network.
Musk slammed Trump's new social media platform, Truth Social, on Wednesday, saying it has a "terrible name" and that only exists because "Twitter censored free speech." On Thursday, Trump posted on Truth Social for the first time in months.
Over the past week, Musk has sold off more than $8 billion in stock in his company. Since Monday, when it was announced that the CEO of the company would run the micro-blogging site, the share price of the company has plummeted, closing at $870.76 on Friday.
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If the deal falls through, Musk will pay $1 billion.
This week, the total sales of Musk's stock were more than $8 billion.
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