Shares of Twitter were suspended on Friday by the New York Stock Exchange NYSE, which said the takeover of the platform was “completed” after more than seven months of a saga full of ups and downs, AFP reported.

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Bluebird shares remained at $53.70, not far from Elon Musk’s proposed price of $54.20.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, took control of Twitter on Thursday after completing the acquisition of the social network for $44 billion, according to several articles in the US specialized media, according to AFP.

After months of turmoil, the world’s richest man immediately fired CEO Parag Agrawal and two other executives, chief financial officer Ned Segal and legal director Vijay Gadde, according to anonymous sources in the Washington Post.

“The bird is free,” he tweeted Thursday after the deal was completed.