Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday the 13th of May 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

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From the who could have expected this in a million years, parentheses, everyone file,

Elon Musk tweeted this morning his Twitter deal is temporarily on hold.

Specifically, at 544 a.m. he tweeted, quote,

Twitter deal temporarily on hold. details supporting calculation that spam slash fake

accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users, end quote.

He then linked to a Reuters article from May 2nd going into that, and then at

750 a.m. Eastern, he followed up by tweeting, quote, still committed to acquisition,

end quote.

Yeah, but meanwhile, Twitter's stock dropped as much as 20 percent,

as the street was taking this as further confirmation the deal might not actually happen,

which again, who could have predicted that in fact I'm kicking

myself we should have been taking wagers in terms of how many days it would be before

Elon himself would throw the deal into doubt.

Quoting the verge.

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