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The wealthiest man in the world declared he wanted to purchase one of the most popular social media sites — until he said he didn't. In early October, he altered direction again, indicating he wanted to finish the acquisition.

On Oct. 28, he finally did.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk clinched an agreement to purchase Twitter at his initial bid price of $54.20 a share for a total cost of around $44 billion. – Musk seals the agreement to purchase Twitter on the last day before the Delaware Chancery Court trial would have gone ahead. Some of Twitter's senior executives were sacked, including CEO Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal, chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde and general counsel Sam Edgett, according to a source.

Mr. Elon Musk added that he would forego any big content filtering or account reinstatement decisions until after the establishment of a new group focused on the concerns.

"Twitter will be organising a content moderation committee with vastly different perspectives," Musk tweeted. "No significant content decisions or account reinstatements will happen until that council convenes."

Rebecca Elliot is an investigative freelance journalist on the topic of US politics, blogging and internet social media news for the past 15 years.

However, she prefers to go by pseudonym.