Twitter shares rise on reports sale to Elon Musk is imminent

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer media award in Berlin on Dec. 1, 2020. Musk says he has lined up $46.5 billion in financing to buy Twitter, and he’s trying to negotiate an agreement with the company. The Tesla CEO says in documents filed Thursday, April 21, 2022 with U.S. securities regulators that he’s exploring a tender offer to buy all of the social media platform’s common stock for $54.20 per share in cash. (Hannibal Hanschke/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Twitter shares rose on reports the social media company is nearing a deal to sell itself to billionaire Elon Musk.

The two sides could reach an agreement as soon as Monday, the Wall Street Journal and other outlets reported, less than two weeks after Musk offered to buy the company at a valuation of more than $40 billion.

A sale would cap a dizzying saga for Twitter and Musk, the world’s richest man and a prolific user of Twitter, where he has more than 83 million followers and regularly posts memes, boosts his companies Tesla and SpaceX, and squabbles with critics.