Elon musk’s acquisition of Twitter was to be one of the biggest buy-outs in corporate history. Now it threatens to become one of the ugliest disputes. Twitter is expected to file a lawsuit against Mr Musk this week in a Delaware court, suing him for pulling out of the $44bn deal. Meanwhile the world’s richest man—and the holder of Twitter’s sixth-most-followed account—has taken to the internet to engage in battle by meme.
The argument may play out over many months. But whoever prevails in court, Twitter has bigger problems to reckon with. Though it is one of the world’s most talked-about social networks, it has failed
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