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> if we just want Twitter as it is

Musk explicitly doesn't want that though, because he needs Twitter to earn a lot more money than it currently does.



False. He can pump profits keeping earnings flat by slashing costs. See probably removing 1/3 the cost with this single move.


The maths don't even begin to work out there.

He just made Twitter take on $13bn of debt to finance his purchase, the company will owe around $1bn a year in interest payments that it didn't used to. The layoffs announced today probably won't even cover that extra interest.


That's probably a billion in recurring expense of the worst kind. Debt can be satisfied with an equity issuance in the future post restructure.


That doesn't account for the lost ad revenue due to the rise of controversial content.




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