With Twitter all he seems to care about is the idea, the name, the userbase and some of the technology. I don't think turning $45b into $100b is a top priority, there are easier ways doing that.
What, pray tell, other than ad tracking is their technology?
If you remove the ads and the surveillance, Twitter is 60 lines of Perl.
If you remove ads and surveillance Twitter isn't 60 lines of Perl. Just their frontend, without even getting into problems of scale, is already much heavier than sixty lines. It also happens to have been an influential technology export [1].
You can find more than sixty projects, not just sixty lines of Perl, open sourced by Twitter. While some of them are related to ad tracking and surveillance not all of them are [2]. Although I haven't checked, I would be shocked if any of them are below sixty lines.
The idea that modern tech companies can be replaced with sixty lines of code is exceedingly naive. There are certain problems that naturally come up at scale like the regular failure of hardware, hot users, persistent dedicated attacks by intelligent malicious actors, and regulatory requirements around data handling which, even taken alone rather than together, demand more than sixty lines of code to adequately address.
Twitter may be simple in theory, but you are quite clearly provoking a straw man conception of the value of Twitter's technology. If you weren't, you wouldn't need to lie or exaggerate to the point of absurdity.
[1]: https://getbootstrap.com/2.0.2/ [2]: https://opensource.twitter.dev/projects/
> What, pray tell, other than ad tracking is their technology?
The person you are responding to is largely repeating first-party accounts of motivation - Elon says he believes that producing greater transparency in algorithmic moderation and active moderation at Twitter, understood as a technology owned by Twitter, is a core ideologically rooted reason for the takeover. You can get this first party account of motivation by listening to the TED interview with Elon Musk which covers the topic of why he feels Twitter should be taken private and why he feels it would benefit from having its moderation practices be incredibly transparent to the point of open sourcing the entirety of Twitter and making their moderation process public.
The world being as unpredictable as it is, the conversation may also move to another medium tomorrow.
Doing anything on Twitter scale has significant technical challenges.
There's no way he gets into Tesla without giant government cash incentives.