https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63408384
Given the history of this deal no-one is saying it's a done deal but it must be very close.
And then the question becomes will Twitter survive - and I ask that as purely a business question.
Musk has notably changed his position from what he once described as 'Free Speech Absolutism' and now calls a 'free for all hellscape'. Over the months when he has gone from being a voice on Twitter to someone trying to make money from it commercial realities seem to have dawned on him and it's no longer even clear whether he will reinstate the accounts of people like Donald Trump, Alex Jones and our very own Katie Hopkins, does anyone remember her?
One of the better known cautions about freemium games and social media is 'if it's free you are the product' and that doesn't just mean us the casual Twitter users but also the likes of Beyonce, Rhianna, Taylor Swift and even Christiano Ronaldo who brings somewhere around 104 million eyes onto the platform. And whereas the followers of these celebrities are likely to buy expensive consumer goods and bring top dollar advertisers Alex Jones trial has shown his followers - whilst lucrative for him personally - bring people who will buy dehydrated meals that will last for 25 years and he brings lawsuits that can be ruinous.
The failure of Trump's 'Truth Social' and Parler, recently saved by a cash injection from Kanye West, isn't a guarantee that rivals to Twitter can't succeed. The continuing decline of Facebook shows that once favoured social networks can easily fall from grace.
Elon Musk may be faced with a choice between alienating his biggest cash cows to appease a vocal but financially insignificant market or doing the reverse.
Or he could still surprise us all and just back out of the deal again.