Parag Agrawal’s refusal to shut down Twitter account fueled Elon Musk’s X acquisition, book reveals

Big news about Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter (Now X) comes after former CEO Parag Agrawal rejected his request to shut down Twitter. Musk began trying to acquire the Weibo platform. Handle tracking the location of billionaire’s private jet @ElonJet.

Kurt Wagner of Bloomberg wrote a book titled “War of the Birds” that revealed this. Interestingly, this information only came out after Wagner’s employer published the first excerpts from the book. The book is expected to be released on February 20.

According to published excerpts from the book, Elon Musk first contacted Parag Agrawal in January 2022 to inquire about the account — @ElonJet, which was created by American programmer Jack · Operated by Jack Sweeney, a student at the University of Central Florida.

It is worth noting that Sweeney also tracked the private jet travel information of several well-known figures through multiple accounts, including former US President Donald Trump, pop singer Taylor Swift, and Microsoft’s Bill Gates. , Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, etc. Swift even threatened to sue the college student.

Musk began buying Twitter stock after Parag Agrawal rebuffed the Tesla CEO’s demands to delete Swwney’s account, prompting him to team up with the platform’s co-founder Jack ·Jack Dorsey conducted the conversation.

Musk initially sought a board seat before agreeing to buy the social media platform outright. He then spent $44 billion to acquire Twitter in October 2022.

Days after acquiring Twitter, Musk fired Agarwal, the tech giant’s first Indian-origin chief executive, among others.

The @ElonJet account was also deleted from Twitter after Musk completed the deal with the Weibo platform. However, Sweeney still posted the travel data of Musk’s plane on other social networking sites.