Just two hours after declaring that he was putting the Twitter acquisition deal on hold until he knew in more detail how many fake accounts there are on the social network, Elon Musk, who is the richest man in the world, has assured that he remains “committed to the acquisition” of the social network, whose purchase was announced for nearly 44,000 million dollars.
“Twitter’s settlement is temporarily suspended pending details to support the calculation that fake and fake accounts spam they represent less than 5% of users,” Musk had written in a message posted on Twitter.
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Effects on the stock market
The tweet, published at 05:44 in the morning New York time (09:44 GMT), has generated more than 10,000 comments and already has more than 16,000 retweets. As soon as the news was known, in addition, Twitter shares have plummeted about 20%, to around 36.5 dollars, before the opening of Wall Street.
But a little more than two hours later, at 07:50 local time, the businessman wrote another brief tweet in which he limited himself to ensuring that he remains “committed to the acquisition.”