Updated on August 15, 2018 to reflect Elon Musk's use of a blog page on the Tesla website to publish his explanation for sending out the August 7th tweets regarding his plan to take Tesla private.
Social media managers for corporations and investment organizations just received an important lesson from Elon Musk. On August 7, 2018, Musk sent out the following series of tweets to announce that he was planning to take Tesla private at $420 a share. This was significantly above the $341 a share trading level on the day before the announcement.