<p>Twitter shareholders on Tuesday voted to approve Tesla CEO Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover bid.</p>.<p>The vote came as Musk's lead team is in a court battle to get out of the deal.</p>.<p>Twitter confirmed that a preliminary count shows it has enough votes to approve the deal, reports <em>The Verge</em>.</p>.<p>Twitter has sued Musk for allegedly breaching the deal agreement.</p>.<p>The vote lets Twitter continue with a lawsuit intended to make Musk close the acquisition.</p>.<p>The legal battle is expected to start in mid-October.</p>.<p>The approval means that Musk and Twitter will proceed to an October trial in the Delaware Court of Chancery.</p>.<p>"Twitter will push to close the deal regardless, alleging that Musk's complaints are merely a pretext for backing out," the report mentioned.</p>.<p>The vote case as Twitter whistleblower Peter Zatko testified at a US Senate committee.</p>.<p>The Tesla CEO is also trying to buy more time from the court to kick off the Twitter trial, set for October 17, citing the testimony by Zatko.</p>.<p>Musk's legal team has proposed a new timeline that would push the week-long trial to late November.</p>.<p>The former Twitter security head has alleged that Twitter misled regulators about its security practices and actual number of bot accounts.</p>.<p>Musk has said that the testimony of Twitter whistleblower justifies his termination of the $44 billion deal to buy the micro-blogging platform.</p>
<p>Twitter shareholders on Tuesday voted to approve Tesla CEO Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover bid.</p>.<p>The vote came as Musk's lead team is in a court battle to get out of the deal.</p>.<p>Twitter confirmed that a preliminary count shows it has enough votes to approve the deal, reports <em>The Verge</em>.</p>.<p>Twitter has sued Musk for allegedly breaching the deal agreement.</p>.<p>The vote lets Twitter continue with a lawsuit intended to make Musk close the acquisition.</p>.<p>The legal battle is expected to start in mid-October.</p>.<p>The approval means that Musk and Twitter will proceed to an October trial in the Delaware Court of Chancery.</p>.<p>"Twitter will push to close the deal regardless, alleging that Musk's complaints are merely a pretext for backing out," the report mentioned.</p>.<p>The vote case as Twitter whistleblower Peter Zatko testified at a US Senate committee.</p>.<p>The Tesla CEO is also trying to buy more time from the court to kick off the Twitter trial, set for October 17, citing the testimony by Zatko.</p>.<p>Musk's legal team has proposed a new timeline that would push the week-long trial to late November.</p>.<p>The former Twitter security head has alleged that Twitter misled regulators about its security practices and actual number of bot accounts.</p>.<p>Musk has said that the testimony of Twitter whistleblower justifies his termination of the $44 billion deal to buy the micro-blogging platform.</p>