Elon Musk on Monday mocked Twitter Inc.’s risk to sue him following his transfer to desert the $44 billion takeover deal, tweeting the social media agency would wish to reveal extra data on bots and spam accounts.

The collection of tweets on Monday was the Tesla Inc. CEO’s first public response since he made public his intention to ditch the provide on Friday as a result of Twitter had breached a number of provisions of the merger settlement.

“Twitter’s board should ponder the potential hurt to its worker and shareholder base of any extra inside knowledge uncovered in litigation,” Benchmark analyst Mark Zgutowicz stated.

Twitter fired again at Musk afterward Monday, accusing the world’s richest individual of “knowingly” breaching an settlement to purchase the social media agency.

In a letter despatched to Musk, dated Sunday and filed with regulators on Monday, Twitter stated it had not breached its obligations below the merger settlement as indicated by Musk on Friday for trying to finish the deal.

“Twitter has not suffered and isn’t prone to endure a Firm Materials Antagonistic Impact,” it added.

Twitter additionally stated within the letter that the merger settlement remained in place, including it will take steps to shut the deal.

Twitter shares fell 11.3 p.c to shut at $32.65 on Monday. The inventory closed at $36.81 on Friday, a 32 p.c low cost to Musk’s $54.20 bid, because it faces a double whammy of a hunch within the broader fairness market and investor skepticism over the deal.

Twitter is planning to sue Musk as early as this week and drive him to finish the acquisition, individuals acquainted with the matter instructed Reuters.

Authorized consultants say the 16-year-old social media firm has a robust authorized case in opposition to Musk, however may go for a renegotiation or settlement as a substitute of an extended court docket battle.

“We consider that Elon Musk’s intentions to terminate the merger are extra primarily based on the current market sell-off than… Twitter’s ‘failure’ to conform along with his requests,” Jefferies analyst Brent Thill wrote in a word.

The contract requires Musk to pay Twitter a $1 billion break-up charge if he can not full the deal for causes such because the acquisition financing falling by means of or regulators blocking the deal. The charge wouldn’t be relevant, nonetheless, if Musk terminates the deal on his personal.