https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/14/elon-musk-buying-twitter-ted-talk/ > Elon Musk announced this morning that he offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion. Just last week, he bought 9.2% of the company for $3 billion, then declined a board seat. Conveniently enough, the controversial CEO of Tesla and SpaceX was already preparing to speak at the TED2022 conference for a conversation that was in such high demand that TED made the livestream available to the public. > In the first question of the session, TED head Chris Anderson immediately asked Musk why he made an offer to buy Twitter.