ETtech Explainer: How Elon Musk-Twitter saga unfolded amid top-level firing, leaked chats and more

The world’s richest person and tech billionaire Elon Musk finally closed the deal to acquire Twitter for $44 billion on Friday after almost seven months of dilly-dallying and keeping everyone on the tenterhooks, particularly Twitter employees and shareholders, with a ‘will-he won’t-he’ approach.

The Twitter-Musk saga reached some definite conclusion hours before the court-set October 28 deadline to close the deal.