Elon Musk carried a sink into Twitter on Wednesday as deal nears close

With conscionable a fewer much days near to implicit his acquisition of Twitter and stave disconnected a caller tribunal date, billionaire Elon Musk walked into the company's San Francisco bureau connected Wednesday with what appeared to beryllium a porcelain bath descend successful his hands.

"Entering Twitter HQ – fto that descend in!" the Tesla and SpaceX CEO tweeted with a video of his entrance.

A idiosyncratic astatine the institution confirmed to CNBC that Elon was visiting today, and noted that determination is immoderate interior interest astir what volition hap to radical connected foreign-worker visas. This person, who declined to beryllium named discussing interior matters, said that employees are trying to support moving contempt each the attraction being paid to the deal, and contempt reports that Musk could gut the spot with monolithic layoffs. Some employees accidental they consciousness similar if helium buys it, helium tin "burn it each down if helium wants to."

Staff successful the bureau got a little heads up astir the visit, according to an email shared by reporters from CNN and Bloomberg.

The sender, whom Bloomberg identified arsenic Twitter Chief Marketing Officer Leslie Berland, wrote that Musk would beryllium successful the bureau this week "meeting with folks, walking the halls, and continuing to dive successful connected the important enactment you each do. If you're successful SF and spot him around, accidental hi!"

The email besides said employees would perceive straight from Musk connected Friday. A Twitter spokesperson declined to remark connected the study oregon connected Musk's tweet.

Earlier, Musk changed his description connected the societal media service, wherever helium has much than 110 cardinal followers, to "Chief Twit."

Musk has until 5 p.m. Eastern Time connected Friday to implicit his woody to bargain Twitter oregon again look the proposition of going to trial. Twitter sued Musk erstwhile helium tried to get retired of their $44 cardinal merger statement by claiming Twitter had not been forthcoming astir spam and bots connected its platform, which helium claimed would magnitude to a worldly adverse effect. Twitter has denied this.

A Delaware Chancery Court justice acceptable the Friday deadline aft Musk said helium would beryllium consenting to bargain Twitter aft all. Twitter, not taking Musk connected his word, wanted the tribunal to stay involved. The justice ended up postponing the archetypal proceedings acceptable for past week and gave the parties until the extremity of this week to adjacent to deal, oregon other she would acceptable caller proceedings dates for November.

CNBC's Lora Kolodny contributed to this report.

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