The social media platform Elon Musk bought in 2022 for about $44 billion was Twitter.
Musk began accumulating Twitter shares in early 2022 and made an unsolicited offer to buy the company on 14 April. Twitter’s board initially adopted a “poison pill” defense, but it accepted Musk’s offer for approximately $44 billion on 25 April. After months of legal and financing disputes, the acquisition was completed on 27 October 2022.
The transaction was an all-cash acquisition of Twitter, Inc. Musk said he wanted to promote free speech, reduce spam and bot accounts, and make the platform’s recommendation algorithms more open. The takeover brought major changes to Twitter’s management, staffing, verification system, and moderation policies.
The answer is Twitter because that was the platform’s name when Musk purchased it. After the acquisition, Twitter, Inc. was merged into X Corp., and the service was progressively rebranded as X. That later name can cause confusion, but it does not change the historically correct answer to a question about the 2022 purchase.