Twitter no longer exists

Musk says his 'dog is the CEO of Twitter'

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The name change was spotted in a court filing.
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The name change was spotted in a court filing.

Twitter no longer exists as an independent company. Elon Musk has merged it with a newly formed company called X Corp., leading to speculation about his plans for the social media platform.

"Twitter, Inc. has been merged into X Corp. and no longer exists," reads the court document [pdf] filed by Twitter in a California court. This only became public because of the filings, which Tw...

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