January 31: Elon Musk begins to buy Twitter shares, increasing his stake in the social media platform.

March 14: His stake in Twitter increases to five per cent but he misses disclosing the stake to the US Securities and Exchanges by 10 days.

March 24: The Tesla man in a series of tweets criticises Twitter, asking users of platform if “a new platform is needed”.

April 4: Elon Musk discloses a nine per cent stake in Twitter, which makes him the largest shareholder of the company.

April 14: Musk makes a bid — $54.20 a share to buy Twitter and added that he might sell his stake in the company if not accepted.

April 21: He says a $46.5 billion package to finance has been lined up to back his bid for Twitter.

April 25: Twitter accepts the offer.

May 13: A tweet arrives out of the blue and Musk says the deal was “temporarily on hold” because of concerns he had about fake accounts on the platform.

May 16: Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal defends his company’s ability to fight spam accounts.

June 3: Twitter said the window had closed for federal antitrust regulators to block the deal.

July 8: Musk wants to terminate the deal after accusing that Twitter hadn’t provided enough information about fake or spam accounts.

July 12: Twitter sues Musk over the billionaire’s attempt to walk away from the deal.

July 19: A Delaware judge orders a five-day trial in October over Musk’s objections.

August 10: Musk sells nearly $7 billion of Tesla stock amid uncertainty over the fate of his Twitter acquisition.

October 4: The man agrees to buy Twitter for his original price offer of $54.20 a share.

October 27: Elon Musk visits Twitter headquarters in San Francisco carrying a sink and tweeting: “Entering Twitter HQ — let that sink in.” He met a number of employees over coffee at The Perch but not all of them were happy to see him there.

October 28: Elon Musk takes control of Twitter.