What was the purchase price Elon Musk agreed to pay for Twitter in 2022?

Elon Musk agreed to pay $44 billion to acquire Twitter in 2022.

Musk and Twitter announced the agreement in April 2022. The deal valued the social-media company at $54.20 per share and was structured as an all-cash transaction. After months of legal and commercial conflict, the acquisition closed in October 2022.

The $44 billion figure is the widely cited headline purchase price. It should not be confused with Twitter's market capitalization at other times, the amount of debt used in the transaction, or later estimates of the value of the renamed company.

After the acquisition, Musk became Twitter's owner and chief executive. In 2023, the platform was rebranded as X, creating a separate well-known fact from the original purchase price.