After a saga which spanned just over half a year, Elon Musk completed his takeover of the popular social media site Twitter, on October 27th. He became the company's largest shareholder, with a 9.1% ownership stake, in April of this year.

However, as has become common knowledge, it has not been smooth driving for the Tesla billionaire. He has made a string of seemingly rash decisions in an attempt to make the company profitable, a decision which has not gone down well among the Twitter faithful. 

For example, for as long as anyone can remember, the Twitter verification tick has been added to your account completely free of charge, subject to your account being deemed 'real' and 'famous enough. However. Mr Musk initially stated that verification would cost $20 per month. Now, after an enraged tweet from best-selling writer Stephen King, Mr Musk reduced the cost to $8 per month, but this was still deemed too expensive, especially by smaller content creators who are just starting up. He tried to justify it by correctly stating that businesses need revenue, but this did little to soothe the anger of those who would struggle to afford the $ 96-a-year verification fee and left them wondering if Twitter was the correct place to advertise their content and/or services.

This was not the only problem with the 'Twitter Blue' scheme, the name given to the premium version of Twitter which among other perks, allowed users to buy verification. It also raised the obvious problem of fake accounts- since the launch of Twitter Blue, several prominent companies have seen their stock price plummet after impersonators with paid-for verification sent a set of unfortunate tweets, as the companies. 

Possibly the biggest outrage to come out of Mr Musk's takeover is his possibly illegal decision to on-the-spot fire half of Twitter's 7,500 employees, a decision, claimed by Mr Musk to help the company financially, has seen multiple lawsuits filed against him. Along with this, he told the rest of the employees they had less than a week to code the Twitter Blue system or risk being fired. Many have seen these decisions as rash and unnecessary from the famously expert businessman.

At the time of writing, Twitter is still running. But worrying reports from the morning of Friday 18th November suggest that the site could begin to go down as early as tonight (Friday 18th). Many who have been on the platform for more than a decade will be heartbroken to see this happen. Hopefully, Mr Musk is able to find a solution, or he risks losing the entity for which he paid a staggering $44 billion.