Buyout

Twitter Inc’s Shares surged 7.25 percent to close at $17.61 on Wednesday following a rumor saying that former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer was buying the micro-blogging website.
Aug 04, 2016
Twitter added three million users, one million more than the forecast

Jul 25, 2016
The deal puts an end to a 20-year run by the internet pioneer as an independent company