elon musk’s attempt to bail on his 44 billion takeover of twitter has roiled shares in the social media company as investors face uncertainty over the future of the deal the tesla ticker tsla ceo announced late last week that he was terminating the merger agreement with twitter twtr alleging that it was in material breach of their deal as a result of misrepresenting how many of its users are spam accounts twitter has made clear that it will take musk to court to enforce the deal