Famed rapper Snoop Dogg said he may swoop in to buy Twitter now that Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid. On Friday he tweeted that he may have to buy Twitter after Elon Musk said the deal was stalled.
He said may swoop in to buy Twitter now that Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid to buy the social media company is on hold. On Friday Elon made an announcement that the deal is “temporarily on hold” over the number of fake accounts on the site prompted the “Drop It Like It’s Hot” singer to make some news of his own. Snoop tweeted “May have 2 buy Twitter now.” He laid out a set of new rules for the company, which included replacing the board of directors, giving everyone a verified account and putting free internet on airplanes.
“Gonna replace the board of directors with Jimmy from my corner Fish Fry, Tommy Chung and that guy with the ponytail on CNBC,” he wrote. “Everyone gets a blue checkmark. Even tha bots with 10 letters in their name that hit you in DMs n just say “Hello”. Nah f–k those bots.” He later tweeted: “First line of business. Free internet on airplanes!!! 29 dollars for 1 hour is bulls–t.”
“Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,” the Tesla CEO said in an early Friday tweet at 5:44 a.m. At 7:50 a.m., Musk tweeted again that he was “Still committed to acquisition.” Elon has also vowed to buy out Twitter shareholders and take Musk also intends to revamp the company’s content moderation policies that have resulted in bans on controversial figures, many of them on the political right.
