Twitter expressed interest in buying TikTok's U.S. operations - sources

It is far from certain that Twitter would be able to outbid Microsoft Corpand complete such a transformative deal in the 45 days that U.S. President Donald Trump has given ByteDance to agree to a sale, the sources said on Saturday.The news of Twitter and TikTok being in preliminary talks and Microsoft still being seen as the front-runner in bidding for the app's U.S. operations was reported earlier by the Wall Street Journal.