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US SEC sends letter to Musk over tweets on $44 billion Twitter deal

Twitter experiences longest global outage in years

Elon Musk. Photo: Bloomberg
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Elon Musk. Photo: Bloomberg

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US Securities and Exchange Commission sent a letter to Elon Musk last month asking for clarification over some of the tweets the billionaire sent about his $44 billion deal for Twitter, regulatory filing showed on Thursday.

Twitter was coming back online on Thursday after an hour-long outage kept thousands of users across the globe from accessing the social media website.

The outage affected nearly 2,000 users as of 9 am ET, down from the peak of 50,000 incidents an hour earlier, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Social network was completely unavailable to users around world on web and mobile for 45

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