A timeline of billionaire Elon Musk’s bid to control Twitter

Elon Musk threatened Monday to call off his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, accusing the company of refusing to give him information about spam bot accounts.

Here’s a look at some of what’s transpired between the billionaire Tesla CEO and the social media platform.

March 26: Musk, who has 80 million Twitter followers and is active on the site, said that he is giving “serious thought” to building an alternative to Twitter, questioning free speech on the platform and whether Twitter is undermining democracy.

April 4: A regulatory filing reveals that Musk has rapidly become the largest shareholder of Twitter after acquiring a 9% stake, or 73.5 million shares, worth about $3 billion.