Elon Musk tries to buy Twitter for $41BILLION: Tesla CEO offers $54.20 a share and says if his offer is not accepted ‘I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder. Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it’

• He provided a letter to Twitter Inc. on Wednesday containing a proposal to buy

• The outspoken Tesla CEO currently owns more than 9 percent of Twitter’s stock

• Shares of Twitter jumped nearly 12 percent before the market open on Thursday 

• He said investment bank Morgan Stanley was the financial adviser for the offer

• In a tweet with a link to SEC, the SpaceX CEO simply wrote: ‘I made an offer’ 

• The Twitter board of directors said that it would ‘carefully review the proposal’

• Last week, Musk backed out of an agreement to join Twitter’s board of directors 

• Musk has amassed over 80 million followers since joining the site in 2009 

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