Twitter followed through on its promise to force Elon Musk to buy the company on Tuesday, suing the SpaceX and Tesla CEO in a Delaware court.
The company’s board doubled down last week after Musk’s legal team sent Twitter a letter stating his intentions to withdraw from the deal. Twitter board chairman Bret Taylor tweeted that the company remained “committed” to closing the deal at the terms the two parties previously agreed to and signaled Twitter’s intentions to “pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement.”
Last week, Musk claimed that Twitter breached the terms of the deal by failing to prove that the number of fake accounts on the platform matches Twitter’s longstanding estimates. Musk began making a lot of noise around the issue back in May, after he’d already agreed to buy the realtime social network for $44 billion.
This story is developing.