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From weed joke to agreed deal: Inside Musk's 44b Twitter buyout

Elon Musk's Twitter account is seen on a smartphone in front of the Twitter logo in this photo illustration taken, on April 15, 2022. [Reuters]

Twitter Inc and its advisers were not sure at first how seriously to take him.

Elon Musk's $54.20-per-share offer price for the social media company on April 14 contained the digits 420, a reference to a trope for smoking marijuana.

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