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Is Tesla owner Elon Musk's Twitter account suspended

Finally, Elon Musk walked away from the famous Twitter deal, who agreed to buy it for $44 billion in April, blaming the platform had failed to provide him with a proper estimation of the number of bot accounts on its site.

Result of not buying Twitter

As a consequence, Twitter has suspended his Twitter account, and that's how the Twitter handlers are thinking and following a misleading viral tweet that is being surfaced on platform.

Tweet that went viral

A Twitter user tweeted: ' they suspended @eIonmusk fr??' The user was taken to the suspended Twitter account when the handle was clicked.

Redirects to suspended account

And indeed, when one clicks on the handle, sure enough, it takes the user to this page of the suspended Twitter account.

Twitter handlers were made to believe

Users were in disbelief, and the news was taken as a storm; many even thought that the account was suspended.

Proved as a prank

At last, everything was proved that the news was a prank. The suspended Twitter account was not of real Elon Musk but was a fake account that looked the same as Elon Musk's real Twitter handle.

Elon Musk account safe

Others figured out and posted Elon Musk's real Twitter account as it still intact in real.

What made the prank

Another Twitter user wrote that anyone could have fallen for this prank as the 'i(I)' made all the difference, and those who paid extra focus on the suspended account understood the trick and broke the chain by informing others.

Notified to the commission

Elon Musk mentioned his decision regarding terminating the buying of the Twitter deal in a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing. As per his lawyers, Twitter has breached 'multiple provisions' of the agreement, as they could not provide him with enough information regarding the number of fake and spam accounts active on the microblogging platform.

More spam accounts

Twitter, who earlier estimated that the number of spam accounts on the platform was less than five percent, while Elon Musk believes it is more than twenty percent or more.

Twitter legal team ready

 Meanwhile, Twitter and its legal team are ready for a legal battle with Elon Musk as he failed to compile the agreement he signed with the company.

Well, it's time for Elon Musk to pay $1 billion based on his signed stipulated agreement if he walks away from buying Twitter.

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