Twitter's Poison Pill Approach Causes Thousands to Become Economic Historical Experts

April 16th, 2022 - 11:45 AM EDT by Brandon Wink

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Elon Poison Pill'd

After Elon Musk officially declared his intent to Buy Twitter, Twitter had an all hands on deck meeting, which concluded with the adoption of a Shareholder Rights Plan, often called a poison pill, because it makes the company look less attractive to potential buyers, while being harder to acquire overall. The plan in question is that, strictly speaking, if Elon Musk goes from his current 9% stake to 15%, additional stock of Twitter will be made available to current stock holders at a discounted price, under the theory that the people will want to buy the discounted stock, and lowering Elon's 15% along the way. Shortly after news of the poison pill started to spread, many different reports on it in a positive and negative way were shared online.

After reporting of the news was over, the reactions and hot takes started to come out, with many people expressing views on something that hasn't been publicly seen in the business world in years. Various views expressed were how this could be nullified, how it is super effective, how Twitter doing it says something about society, and how everyone seems to be an expert now out of nowhere.

For those that didn't exactly know what a poison pill was, there were some on Twitter who were ready, and gave historical data from past business's that took the poison pill, and what their eventual outcome was for both the company and the stock holders.



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