# Twitter to Appoint Elon Musk to Board of Directors

By Human Events · Published 2022-04-05 · News & Analysis › Media · https://humanevents.com/news/twitter-to-appoint-elon-musk-to-board-of-directors

> Twitter is set to appoint Tesla CEO Elon Musk to its board of directors following news that he acquired a 9.2 percent stake in the Big Tech platform. As previously reported by Human Events News, Musk is now the largest shareholder in the platform, with 73,486,938 shares worth $2.9 billion. Musk will be appointed to \[…\]

Twitter is set to appoint Tesla CEO Elon Musk to its board of directors following news that he acquired a 9.2 percent stake in the Big Tech platform.

[As previously reported by](https://humanevents.com/2022/04/04/elon-musk-takes-9-stake-in-twitter/) *[Human Events News](https://humanevents.com/2022/04/04/elon-musk-takes-9-stake-in-twitter/)*, Musk is now the largest shareholder in the platform, with 73,486,938 shares worth $2.9 billion.

Musk will be appointed to the board as a class two director, *Just the News* [reports](https://justthenews.com/nation/technology/twitter-will-appoint-elon-musk-board-directors). His term will expire at the company’s 2024 annual meeting.