Elon Musk has changed his Twitter bio to 'Chief Twit' and waltzed into the social media platform's headquarters with a sink.
The world's richest man who is currently making his second attempt to buy Twitter, is hardly making much of a secret about his £40billion purchase.
A previously court ruled that Musk must meet a deadline of this Friday to close the jaw-dropping deal which is expected to bring with it plenty of changes to the platform.
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The ever-confident Musk appears to have jokingly all but confirmed the purchase a few days early with subtle tweaks to his own Twitter profile which haven't gone unnoticed.
The South African-born Tesla owner may have been proving he really is throwing the kitchen sink at the purchase when entering Twitter's San Francisco office on Wednesday.
With his social media location changed to 'Twitter HQ' and his descriptor to 'Chief Twit' Elon Musk shared a video of himself bizarrely carrying a sink into the building.
He captioned it: "Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!"
The quick video posted to his 110million followers on Wednesday evening shows a gleaming Elon laughing with the sink in hand, as he walks through revolving glass doors and past a massive Twitter logo on the wall.
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After just a couple of hours almost 10million people had viewed the comedic stunt bringing to life a metaphor of his ground-breaking deal.
According to Codeclan, Musk could lose as many as 13,478,400 followers were he to purge the social network of its fake bot accounts.
Meanwhile, Justin Bieber would lose the most followers, with 27,636,400 of his followers estimated to be fake.
This is because, according to Musk's own statements, he wants to rid Twitter of spam and bot accounts.
Doing so is so important to the billionaire that he used it as an excuse for pulling out of his Twitter buyout deal altogether. However, he has now backtracked on this and agreed to go ahead with the sale.
Linda Scott of CodeClan said: "We think it is incredibly important that ‘bot’ and spam accounts get removed from the platform of Twitter. The vast number of spam accounts is harming user experience, endangering legitimate users and profiles.
"Whilst we do understand that the problem is more complex than simply removing a user, the issue needs to be addressed and rules put in place."
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