Elon Musk Says Twitter Deal ‘Temporarily on Hold,’ Stock Drops 20%
thewrap.comtweeted. Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of usershttps://t.co/Y2t0QMuuynMusk’s tweet referenced a May 2 news story about a Twitter regulatory filing that claimed that spam and fake accounts — something that Musk had vowed to crack down on on the platform — accounted for less than 5% of all the 229 million daily active users who are served advertising.
The filing came days after the Tesla CEO clinched a $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter and take it private. On Thursday, Twitter’s general manager Kayvon Beykpour and general manager for revenue Bruce Falck were fired just ahead of the Musk takeover.The deal is expected to close in 2022, subject to the approval of Twitter stockholders and regulators.
Musk has secured $25.5 billion of fully committed debt and margin loan financing and is providing an approximately $21.0 billion equity commitment.
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