Who are the top 10 shareholders of Twitter?

Twitter is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as “tweets”.

Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, but unregistered users can only read those that are publicly available.

Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year.

By 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day.

In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as “the SMS of the Internet”.

By the start of 2019, Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users.

In practice, the vast majority of tweets are written by a minority of users.

Who are the top 10 shareholders of Twitter?

1.Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, recently purchased around 73,486,938 shares of Twitter on or before March 14, making him the largest shareholder of the company.

2.Vanguard Group

The Vanguard Group, which is an investment advisor company based out of the United States, is the second-largest shareholder in Twitter, with around 70,375,259 shares.

3. Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is an investment bank and financial services company which is based out of New York, US. The company owns as many as 70,157,074 shares of Twitter.

4. BlackRock

BlackRock Inc. is one of the largest American multinational investment management corporation and it owns around 51,858,827 shares of Twitter currently.

5. State Street Corporation

State Street Corporation, which is an American financial service and bank holding company, is one of the largest shareholders of Twitter, owning as many as 36,363,324 shares.

6 – 10. Aristotle, FMR LLC and others

Other companies that are in the top ten shareholders of Twitter are Aristotle Capital Management, FMR LLC, Ark Investment Management, Clearbridge Investments, and Geode Capital Management.

All of these companies own over 14,000,000 shares of Twitter.

Below is a breakdown of the shares owned;

Ark Investment Management owns 17,245,755 shares
Clearbridge Investments owns 16,733,505 shares
Geode Capital Management owns 14,314,021 shares
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings owns 12,467,698 shares

It should be noted that on April 14, 2022, Elon Musk offered to buy 100% of the company. Twitter has stated they will review the proposal.