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He should give a try
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Conspiracy theory time. He didn't buy twitter to turn a profit, he did it to control the headlines. For which, he is getting great value for money
Reminder: He was forced to buy Twitter by a judge and was doing everything he could to avoid buying Twitter.
He is using it to control the headlines, but that's not the reason he bought it. The reason he bought it is that he was forced to. He wanted to back out of the deal.
That doesn’t make any sense because he was the one who offered to buy it in the first place. He signed binding contract to purchase it, then tried to back out prob not because he didn’t want it, but he realized he was overpaying. He has obviously loved owning Twitter as far as the attention and social power he gained.
He should have paid the $1 billion to back out and made another offer, but he’s sleazy, prideful, stingy and stubborn and wanted to back out for free by employing bullshit excuses and lawyers.
He was trying to do a pump and dump. Buy shares, say he is going to buy at a huge premium, sell when the price shots up. He had already done something similar.
Twitter said they would take the deal and the SEC said follow through or go to jail. So he borrowed heavily against his Tesla stock to buy Twitter at the ridiculous price.
Twitter didn't make enough to pay the interest even before he ran it into the ground. So he has to keep his creditors happy. Saudi Arabia is one if the big ones and they hated people being able to say whatever they wanted on twitter.