recruiting partner to join his bid to take over the company. alexandria hoff has that story. financial tactic used to block a potential takeover of a company works by giving the board and ability to flood the market shares making overall acquisition far more expensive. last week as we know elon musk offered $43 billion to buy twitter. he called it his final offer for disinterest really drives from what he calls being a free speech absolutes who disagrees with decisions made by twitter to block certain people off the platform but here s what he said thursday. i do think we want to be very reluctant to delete things and just be very cautious with permanent vans. timeouts i think are better but. he also indicated he has a plan b for taking ownership. but that was before twitter board voted yesterday to adopt the poison pill this tactic is not always deployed in the same way.