‘Let that sink in’, says Elon Musk as he strolls into Twitter HQ

The video was tweeted by the billionaire shortly after the Chief Marketing Officer of Twitter, Leslie Berland told staff in an email Wednesday that Elon Musk has planned to visit Twitter’s San Francisco office this week ahead of the expected close of his deal to buy the company.

Reportedly, the deal closing would put an end to a months-long battle over the acquisition deal which the Tesla CEO previously decided to exit but agreed to move forward with earlier this month on the originally agreed-upon terms, according to CNN.

Elon Musk changed his Twitter bio to ‘Chief Twit’

Meanwhile, on Monday, Elon Musk also changed his Twitter bio to “Chief Twit.” He has also discussed on several occasions reducing Twitter’s workforce in text messages with friends about the deal which were eventually revealed in court filings.

In July, in a surprising turn of events, Elon Musk who had long been showing his interest to buy Twitter terminated the deal. The Tesla CEO did so by alleging that Twitter violated their mutual purchase agreement by misrepresenting the number of spam and fake bot accounts on its platform.

After Musk put out the deal termination announcement, the market saw a sharp decline. Later, Twitter sued Musk accusing him of using bots as a pretext to exit a deal.

Again, last week, Musk confirmed that he will move forward with the Twitter buyout at the originally agreed price of USD 54.20 per share. However, the Twitter deal legal proceedings had been put on hold by a judge overseeing the dispute until October 28.