Elon Musk celebrated his upcoming deal with a video of himself entering Twitter headquarters with a sink Wednesday, enabling the impending ownership of the social media platform to “sink in.”
“Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!” Musk wrote on Twitter alongside a video of the billionaire feeling at home in his new company.
The Tesla CEO’s $44 billion acquisition is finally set to close on Friday, after months of back and forth since Musk originally offered to buy the company in April but then quickly backed away from the sale after saying he was misled about the amount of “bot” accounts on the social media platform.
In October, Twitter agreed with Musk’s proposal to close a sale at their original $54.20-per-share price, which values the company at $44 billion.
Musk’s message to process the implications of the deal are already in the works for many, as media figures, politicians and others share their concerns for what Musk’s ownership might mean for Twitter, as the CEO expressed his desire to relax the platform’s censorship, with exceptions for spam accounts and explicit calls for violence.
Most recently, journalist Kara Swisher shared her concerns about the app’s security Tuesday, noting that she wasn’t sure if she would continue to use the social media under Musk’s rule.
“I don’t trust them to do a good job at security as before,” the veteran journalist said at The Makers Conference, underscoring that she would be saving her own data in case the app fails to protect her information.
Musk’s plans to reduce the app’s censorship have excited followers of the conspiracy theorist QAnon, according to The New York Times’ Stuart A. Thompson, who explained Wednesday that the Q world imagines “they will be unbanned and can reach normies again with their theories” after Musk takes over. Thompson also pointed out that the phrase Musk used, “let that sink in,” is associated with a QAnon communique, or a “Q drop,” dated Wednesday.
Prior to posting the video, Musk praised the social media app, tweeting “A beautiful thing about Twitter is how it empowers citizen journalism – people are able to disseminate news without an establishment bias.”
