Twitter Inc TWTR 7.04% shares are getting hammered once again on Friday as hopes of a salesforce.com, inc. CRM 1.94% buyout may now be completely extinguished.

Financial Times is reporting that Salesforce has ruled out a bit for Twitter, sending Salesforce shares soaring 5.4 percent and Twitter shares plummeting 6.1 percent.

Remember When?

Benzinga Pro first reported on October 5 that Salesforce’s largest shareholder, Fidelity Management, has been opposed to a potential Twitter buyout from the beginning.

Benzinga Pro followed up with a report on October 6 that a potential Salesforce bid for Twitter was discussed back in early July, but that potential bid represented little or no premium to Twitter’s share price at the time. Twitter’s share price was around $17 at the time.

Since the beginning of 2016, a number of Twitter buyout rumors pushed the stock as high as $25.26 by early October. It seemed every day, there was another report on Twitter bidders, but with very little context. However, potential Twitter suitors have been dropping…

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