Elon Musk's offer for Twitter is the highest ever in the world of social networks

How many are 44 Billion? They are “relatively” few when compared with the 86 billion spent at the beginning of 2022 by the mining giant Bhp for the delisting of its shares from the London Stock Exchange. On the other hand, there are many if you think that in the case of Twitter the buyer is a natural person, the billionaire Elon Musk. To try to better contextualize the operation that will transform the social network into a private company from a financial point of view, sportsgaming.win has referred to these data in the graph below.

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Here if you don't see the graph The graph shows the M & As (abbreviation for merger and acquisitions) for a value of more than 20 billion, including debt, recorded in the current decade. That is starting from 2020. The one just finalized by the owner of Tesla and SpaceX is the fifth largest, on a par with the acquisition, again this year, of Ihs Markit, a data company active in the finance sector, by S&P Global.

Higher in the rankings, exactly in third place, are the 68.7 billion that Microsoft invested a few months ago to buy the video game company Activision Blizzard. In short, there are M&A operations that have moved higher figures than that put on the table by Musk to be able to decide independently on the future of Twitter.

If, however, mining, finance and gaming tighten the field in the world of social networks, the 44 billion that will end up in the pockets of the now former shareholders of the platform founded and led by Jack Dorsey until last November, are unrivaled.

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Here if you don't see the graph The graph shows the values ​​of acquisitions, reconstructed through print sources, of acquisitions of social or messaging platforms in recent years. At the bottom of the ranking there are also the oldest M & As: Instagram was bought for 1 billion by Facebook in 2012, YouTube for 1.6 by Google in 2006.

Should they be revived today, these trades would have a lot of value different. According to a Bloomberg estimate, Instagram is now worth around $ 100 billion. YouTube invoices 15, which makes us understand that a possible sale should take place at a much higher price than that of sixteen years ago. Likewise, if he had bought them five years ago these days when they were down to around $ 15, Musk would have paid a lot less for his Twitter stock.