How long does Twitter have left?

The first financial time bomb is all the pending employment lawsuits.

the fines. Elon-Twitter has been flagrantly ignoring the FTC consent decree.

He’ll declare bankruptcy and blame the regulators. “I was THIS CLOSE to turning around this important, innovative company that is a threat to the mainstream media and all those crooked politicians,” he’ll say. “But then the liberal bureaucrats stepped in and fined the company out of existence! There’s nothing I can do about it. Twitter is dead now. It all would’ve worked out if not for that meddling government.”

That narrative will, objectively, be bullshit

There’s also the additional $1Billion a year of debt payments twitter has to pay on the acquisition loans. I suspect those will be coming due first.

Thing is, bankruptcy wouldn't imply that Twitter _went away_, though it might be the end of Musk-Twitter.

As for how long Twitter has left, with the broadest possible definition of "Twitter", well, myspace.com still goes somewhere.

Twitter will be fine with family friendly advertising slotted in from Disney and Apple. There is a very high upside to the proven model of an Everything-X App's success. The interim CEO is Optimist in outlook at his latest presso with a dog in a turtleneck pic. He said Twitter is easier than Tesla. Twitter over Starlink will go more direct with faster light in the satellite constellations than ground buried squiggley fibre optic.

Twitter dead in six months? Maybe he is still the hero we need.

Elon should buy Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok and run those into the ground too.

Much longer than this substack