On Friday, the will-he-or-won’t-he soap opera that is Elon Musk buying Twitter reached a mid-season cliffhanger. The colorful Tesla chief pointed to a Reuters story and tweeted, “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users.” Later, he stated that he was “still committed to acquisition,” but proposed sampling a “random” group of 100 users to gauge the extent of the issue. One follower asked him, “You didn’t think about this before offering $44 billion to buy the company?” He responded, “I relied upon the accuracy of Twitter’s public filings.”