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$44-Billion Twitter Deal on Hold, says Elon Musk
$44-Billion Twitter Deal on Hold, says Elon Musk
The acquisition of Twitter is temporarily on hold.
Elon Musk said on Friday his $44-billion (roughly Rs. 3,40,710 crore) acquisition of Twitter was temporarily on hold, citing pending details on spam and fake accounts.
Shares of the social media company fell 17 percent in premarket trading.
Shares of the social media company fell 20 percent in premarket trading. Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The company had earlier this month estimated that false or spam accounts represented fewer than 5 percent of its monetisable daily active users during the first quarter.
It also said it faced several risks until the deal with Musk is closed, including whether advertisers would continue to spend on Twitter.
Musk, the world's richest man and the chief executive of Tesla, had said that one of his priorities would be to remove "spam bots" from the platform.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by The Hans India staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
