{"id":149046,"date":"2022-10-28T16:23:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T21:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/here-are-some-of-the-best-internet-reactions-to-elon-musk-buying-twitter"},"modified":"2022-10-28T16:23:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T21:23:29","slug":"here-are-some-of-the-best-internet-reactions-to-elon-musk-buying-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/here-are-some-of-the-best-internet-reactions-to-elon-musk-buying-twitter","title":{"rendered":"Here are some of the best internet reactions to Elon Musk buying Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/here-are-some-of-the-best-internet-reactions-to-elon-musk-buying-twitter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a mix of excitement and fear and lots of memes.<\/p>\n<p>After much back and forth and a lawsuit, four days ago, Elon Musk completed his $44 billion takeover of the social media platform Twitter. Musk had put the deal on hold after his initial offer earlier this year. Later he backed out, citing a high number of fake or spam accounts on the platform, a point that then-CEO Aggarwal had publicly denied.<\/p>\n<p>Musk was then taken to court by Twitter\u2019s lawyers. The court had given the two parties time till the month\u2019s end to work out a deal.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as Musk acquired Twitter, he proceeded to fire CEO Parag Aggarwal, finance executive Ned Segal, and legal and policy executive Vijaya Gadde.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Billionaire CEO Elon Musk has finally bought Twitter after a long saga of back-and-forth negotiations and even a lawsuit. The internet is both excited and afraid, and people are expressing their opinions in all kinds of ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a mix of excitement and fear and lots of memes. After much back and forth and a lawsuit, four days ago, Elon Musk completed his $44 billion takeover of the social media platform Twitter. Musk had put the deal on hold after his initial offer earlier this year. Later he backed out, citing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,2019,45,418,1496,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-elon-musk","category-finance","category-internet","category-law","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}