> My money's on Musk.

Same. Worst case scenario for Musk is he gets Tesla to bankroll the takeover with some BS synergies as justification (like he did with Solar City). With fewer engineering resources, I don't expect any major changes to the platform. Advertisers might flee due to the uncertainty (and couldn't care less about Twitter) but as for the user base, they have no credible alternative to Twitter. Users will likely stick around for a while unless Musk pushes a few more footguns.

Musk also isn’t elected.

Agree, but... Twitter clearly ain't the sort of business where Elan has done well, and it may be a bad fit for both his personality and public persona. Twitter could outlast the lettuce...but "win" with 0.1x the monthly revenue, or otherwise be headed for "the next MySpace" status.

Agreed. For all his warts, he runs a ton of successful businesses.

More important than matters of intelligence: Musk’s public unpopularity means nothing to his power, whereas it meant everything to Truss’s.

If it's true that he fired developers based off lines of code then I think Liz Truss is smarter.