Elon Musk’s texts over Twitter deal included ex-wife Talulah Riley


The text messages between Musk and Twitter executives, close friends, potential investors and Silicon Valley luminaries shed light on how a US$44bil (RM204.42bil) deal by the world’s richest person to buy the social media company came about – and ended up in court. — AFP

A trove of text messages between Elon Musk and his contacts, made public last week as part of ongoing litigation with Twitter Inc, contained several mysteries.

Some could be solved via context clues; Musk texted often with someone called JackJack, who is clearly Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. But who was TJ, the person with strong opinions about Twitter’s content decisions?

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