The agreement with Twitter is "temporarily suspended pending details that support the calculation that spam / fake accounts represent less than 5% of users".

Surprisingly, Elon Musk writes it in a tweet, sharing a Reuters article with figures that apparently the richest man in the world wants to verify before taking over the majority stake for 44 billion dollars .

On Wall Street, Twitter shares tumbled pre-market , now around -21%, while Tesla shares are up about 5% .

For Twitter, the agreement could be one of the major “ leverage buyouts ”, a purchase also through debt, of a listed company.

With the agreement, which if released, should close by 2022, the bluebird company is preparing to leave Wall Street, thus becoming a private company wholly owned by the South African billionaire.

(Unioneonline / D)