twitter shares are falling wednesday as investors worry that elon musk could try to extricate himself from his 44 billion deal to buy the social media company by paying a 1 billion termination fee twitter shares twtr are off 26 or 131 to 4837 in early trading and now offer 12 upside to the deal price of 5420 a share the annualized return is even higher at more than 20 to the expected deal closing date around oct 1