“Twitter's board intends to close the deal at the price and terms agreed with Mr Musk and plans to take legal action to enforce the merger agreement.

We are confident that we will win in the Delaware Chancery Court, ”he wrote in his microblog.

Earlier, American entrepreneur Elon Musk notified Twitter of the termination of the deal to buy the company.

Based on the text of an official letter from Skadden Arps lawyer Mike Ringler, Twitter failed to fulfill its contractual obligations.

Prior to this, The Washington Post, citing three sources informed about the negotiations, reported that Elon Musk's purchase of the company was under "serious threat" due to the fact that the businessman came to the conclusion that it was impossible to establish how many fake users were on the social network.