Musk's tweets came after a Wall Street Journal report that cited unidentified sources saying he had engaged in a brief affair with Shanahan.

Elon Musk reportedly had an affair with the wife of Google co-founder and Tesla investor Sergey Brin which led to the falling out between the longtime friends.

Twitter's lawsuit seeking to hold Elon Musk to his $44-billion takeover will go to trial in October, a judge ruled recently as it adopted a schedule closer to the proposal by the social media giants.

Elon Musk has asked a Delaware court to push back his $44 billion Twitter lawsuit trial until next year. The trial is scheduled to be held in September.

Twitter appears to be returning for some users after experiencing an hourlong outage that affected both its app and website on Thursday.

Twitter was down for thousands of users across the globe recently, its first such outage since February, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Twitter said Tuesday it has sued Elon Musk to force him to complete the $44 billion acquisition of the social media company.

Twitter fired back at Elon Musk on Monday, accusing the world’s richest person of “knowingly” breaching an agreement to buy the social media firm, days after the Tesla Inc chief sought to back out of the $44 billion deal.

After discussions broke off with the world's richest man, Twitter looks well positioned to win a court battle against Elon Musk over a $1 billion breakup fee and more, but the company does not look to emerge unscathed.

Elon Musk's pursuit of Twitter was a melodrama from the beginning to the end, a volatile courtship between the world’s richest man and the massively influential social media platform.

Twitter board plans on pursuing legal action to enforce the merger agreement made with Elon Musk in purchasing Twitter for $44 billion.

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Friday he was terminating his $44 billion deal for Twitter Inc, saying that the social media company had failed to provide information about fake accounts on the platform.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, continues to make news as he looks set to dish out nearly US $80 million on an all-new Gulfstream G700 private aircraft.

Elon Musk on Friday night broke his nine-day silence on Twitter, the social media platform he is trying to buy for $44 billion, posting a picture of him meeting Pope Francis on Thursday.

The world’s richest man Elon Musk recently said that his $44 billion move to take over Twitter remained held up by “very significant” questions about the number of fake users on the social network.

Elon Musk addressed Twitter (TWTR.N) employees for the first time on Thursday, expressing his view that Twitter would need to cut its headcount, but offering few other new details about his $44 billion planned takeover of the social media company.

Elon Musk addressed Twitter employees for the first time on Thursday, projecting a need for “rationalisation of headcount” but offering few other new details about his $44 billion takeover of the social media company.

Elon Musk will speak to Twitter Inc employees this week for the first time at a company-wide meeting since launching his $44 billion bid in April, a source said on Monday, citing an email from Twitter Chief Executive Parag Agrawal to staff.

Telsa, the acclaimed electric automaker, starts laying off employees just a few days after Elon Musk, warned about the impending job cuts. Christopher Bousigues, the country manager of Singapore, updated his peers with a LinkedIn post, terming his position being eliminated. 

Twitter plans to share its “firehose” of raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets with Elon Musk, in an effort to push forward the Tesla billionaire’s agreed-to $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform, according to multiple news reports.