Twitter sued Elon Musk in Delaware on Tuesday for backing out of his $44 billion plan to buy the social media platform, accusing the world’s richest man of trying to “trash the company, disrupt its operations, destroy stockholder value, and walk away.” 

Twitter wants to force Musk to complete the merger at the original agreed price of $54.20 per Twitter share, according to the court filing.

“Having mounted a public spectacle to put Twitter in play, and having proposed and then signed a seller-friendly merger agreement, Musk apparently believes that he — unlike every other party subject to Delaware contract law — is free to change his mind, trash the company, disrupt its operations, destroy stockholder value, and walk away,” Twitter wrote in a 241-page complaint filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery.

“This repudiation follows a long list of material contractual breaches by Musk that have cast a pall over Twitter and its business,” the company added.

The suit comes after Musk said Friday he was terminating the takeover agreement because Twitter had failed to provide adequate information about fake accounts on the site. 

Twitter once again argued that it had given Musk adequate information about bots. It accused Musk of “using bad-faith pursuit of spam-related evidence to assert a baseless claim of breach [of contract].” 

The new filing included a screenshot of a poop emoji that Musk posted on Twitter in response to CEO Parag Agrawal’s statements about steps the company is taking to crack down on bots. Twitter argued the tweet is one of many examples of Musk “disparaging” Twitter in violation of the deal agreement. 

Twitter’s stock was up 1.0% at $34.39 in after-market trading. About an hour after Twitter filed its lawsuit, Musk took to his favorite platform and tweeted: “Oh the irony lol.”

“The Street views Twitter as having an iron-fist upper hand based on the merits going into the legal proceedings,” Wedbush Securities managing director Dan Ives told The Post. “Twitter is not holding back any punches nor should they.” 

But the company’s low stock price indicates that investors believe Musk having to pay a settlement or damages is more likely than a Delaware judge forcing him to buy Twitter, Ives said. He warned that the stock will be in for a wild ride as the legal wrangling potentially drags into 2023.  

In an internal memo Tuesday, Twitter’s general counsel told employees that the company had “filed a motion for an expedited trial alongside the complaint, asking for the case to be heard in September, as it is critically important for this matter to be resolved quickly,” according to the New York Times.