twitter inc shares were down 18 to 3703 in premarket trading friday after elon musk tweeted that his deal to buy the socialmedia company was temporarily on hold mr musk said the deal was on hold pending details on the amount of fake accounts on the platform twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spamfake accounts do indeed represent less than 5 of users mr musk tweeted early friday he linked to a may 2 reuters report about a recent twitter securities filing with those statistics twitter shares closed thursdays session down 2 at thursdays close the stock was up 26 in the last three months and up 4 yeartodate but down 10 in the last 12 months