Tesla founder Elon Musk has taken a 9.2% stake in Twitter.
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Elon Musk has taken a 9.2% stake in Twitter, according to a US securities filing.</p>
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The news sent Twitter shares soaring about 25% in pre-market trading.</p>
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The Tesla founder bought 73,486,938 Twitter shares on 14 March, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.</p>
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The stake is worth $2.89bn (&pound;2.20bn), based on Twitter&#39;s closing price on Friday.</p>
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The stake makes him one of the largest shareholders in the company and is more than four times the 2.25% holding of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.</p>
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Musk is a regular Twitter user with more than 80 million followers, although recently he said he is giving &quot;serious thought&quot; to building a new social media platform.</p>
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